We create the stories of the connected society

Next Wednesday, Feb. 20, is the deadline for applying for New Voices. Here’s what it’s all about: J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism invites U.S. nonprofit groups and education organizations to apply for funding to launch participatory news ventures and to share best practices and lessons learned from their efforts through the J-NewVoices.org Web site. [...]

Community – Who would have thought we would ever live in a world where the word community was difficult to define? I believe that in this globalized society, community means connection. At The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World, an international nonprofit organization and independent journalism initiative, we strive to produce news content [...]

The evolution of new media has intrinsically redefined this nation’s concepts of community. Growing up in the small towns of Ohio, communities for me were always close and clearly defined. Friends, families, churches and schools were connected through location, similar perspectives and shared goals. Communities today extend beyond local definitions and proximity. Technology empowers people [...]

“The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.”        – Frederick Buechner   Belonging to a community in a connected age affords us additional options to develop ourselves and [...]

The boundaries that divide most communities are usually based on race, language, religion or socio-economic differences. At the U.S. – Mexico borderline where I live, the separation between people is physical and political – government policies that create walls and other barriers to the free exchange of travel, business, education, ideas and personal relationships. Unfortunately, traditional news media (newspapers, broadcast television, [...]

In May 2006, Salem Communications, a conservative talk-radio company, purchased Townhall.com and on July 4, 2006, launched a new web presence that combines the grassroots mediums of talk radio and the Internet.   How do you merge an existing online community with a national fan base of radio listeners? How do you grow the community [...]