I’m proud to say that I’ll have a small part in three of the fourteen inaugural reporting projects funded by the Philadelphia Enterprise Reporting Fund, as announced Tuesday. Funded by the William Penn Foundation and administered by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism, a center of American University’s School of Communication in Washington, D.C, the [...]

Updated 4/25/10 @ 5:41 p.m. with William Penn Foundation clarification Fewer than four months after its Philadelphia media elite round table to discuss the subject, the William Penn Foundation has released a more detailed outline of its intentions of investing and developing local online journalism in the region. The report, which was released Wednesday, comes [...]

Read more about this e-mails context here. April 21, 2010 Dear Colleagues, In January, most of you participated in a meeting with Jan Schaffer from J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism, where she presented early findings of her research on the state of public affairs journalism in Philadelphia. We appreciated the feedback that came during [...]

Updated 4/13/10 @ 8:50 a.m.: Regionally-specific hyperlocal is just part of the broader system WHYY, the public media station for the Delaware Valley region, is hoping a $1.2 million hyperlocal news initiative for the northwest region of Philadelphia will be the first successful bold Web-first journalism effort from a legacy media player. Updated: That northwest [...]

Forty leaders in Philadelphia media were on hand last week for the unveiling of a structure to develop more public affairs journalism in the region, as proposed by a university research center on behalf of the William Penn Foundation. From 8:30 a.m. to after 2 p.m. on Jan. 7 inside the Delaware Valley Regional Planning [...]