Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Three projects gets Global Digital News Frontier grants



From the left:
Maria Balinska, Jeanne Pinder and Lissa Harris & Julia Reischel

Three American digital projects run by women gets a 20 000 dollar grant each to develop their news businesses on the web.

ClearHealthCosts.com is run by former New York Times editor Jeanne Pinder. She is hoping to use a combination of databases, crowd sourcing and journalism to help Americans to get a grip on their health costs. A beta version of her project can be found here.

Latitude is run by former BBC editor and producer Maria Balinska. She aims to find new ways to talk about international issues with an American audience/user. The site will be launched in May. Until then, read more on Latitude News.

NewsShed is a spin off from a local web site The Watershed Post run by Julia Reischel and Lissa Harris. The aim is to increase the amount of web based local journalism. read more on te project NewsShed - Sustainable Local News in Rural "News Deserts"

In a press release the IWMF Advisory Committee Chairman Merrill Brown says “Each of the winners offers an innovative way to deliver the news, and they are truly at the forefront of the digital media frontier.” The IWMF Global Digital News Frontier grants is funded by the Ford Foundation. For more info go to the IWMF website


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