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Awarded National Media Grant KBUT Community Radio has been awarded
a New Voices media grant from J-Lab, the Institute for Interactive Journalism.
The grant will provide up to $17,000 over 2 years to fund KBUT's multi-media
project: Immigration- The View From Here.
KBUT was honored to be 1 of only 10 grant award recipients from a record 312 entries
submitted. "These winners want to
build new avenues producing local news and new ways to invite citizens to share
particular expertise," said Jan Schaffer, director of J-Lab, which administers
the New Voices program. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation funds the New Voices
program. The Knight Foundation promotes excellence in journalism worldwide and
interests in the vitality of 26 U.S. communities where the Knight brothers
owned newspapers. "The number of applicants
signals the growing interest in the power of citizen media to create a sense of
place for all kinds of communities," said Gary Kebbel, Knight's journalism
program officer. KBUT's project Immigration: The View from Here
will explore the local impact of immigration, which has tripled in the last
decade in the Gunnison Valley. KBUT will partner with the Gunnison Country
Times and Crested Butte News to provide factual and comprehensive coverage of
immigration issues. The station will also train local immigrants to become citizen
journalists, relating their experiences and perspectives in their own voices. Stories
will air on KBUT's daily news broadcasts and programming will include
feature-length specials. Archived audio and additional content related to the
immigration project will be posted online at www.kbut.org. The station will also
share MP3 files of broadcast materials with Colorado’s 12 other community radio
stations. "New Voices has seeded some of the most exciting examples of
journalism - and of active citizenship - in the United States today," said New
Voices Advisory Board member Peter Levine, director of CIRCLE, The Center for
Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. J-Lab helps news organizations and citizens use digital
technologies to develop new ways for people to participate in public life.
J-Lab supports and spotlights journalism innovations, interactive storytelling,
citizen media, entrepreneurship and research. |
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