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Our Focus
NMWE is a unique initiative addressing opportunity and innovation, recruitment and retention for women in journalism by spotlighting their ingenuity and entrepreneurial abilities. Pilot projects will show what can be done. Research will tell us what more to do. And an awards program and summit will showcase women’s creative ideas. NMWE is supported by the McCormick Foundation.
Apply Now!
McCormick has awarded J-Lab new funding for four new projects in 2012. We are now accepting proposals for $14,000 in startup funding. Deadline is Jan. 27, 2012. Application fee is $25.00.
Apply here or view the news release.
The deadline for the 2012 awards
is January 27 - APPLY NOW!
2011 Winners
Visualizing EconomicsTwo Presentations Amid a Busy December January 4, 2012
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SiliconHillsNews.comPitching at Startup America, Landing our First Sponsor January 4, 2012
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Inside Women's BasketballNew Merger: Full Court will be the New Name January 4, 2012
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Mobile News Platform for Hyperlocal NewsThe First Mobile Site Takes Shape January 4, 2012
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Founder Catherine Mulbrandon seeks to expand her VisualizingEconomics.com's website and create Illustrated Guides that contain infographic explainers using economic data that help journalists, teachers, students, financial bloggers and citizens understand economic numbers and policy. The NMWE award supplements $14,000 raised on Kickstarter.
TechChi blogger and journalist Laura Lorek will build out a startup news site for technology and biotechnology news in the Austin-San Antonio region, focusing on entrepreneurs, companies and creative people.
Atlanta documentarian and photographer Kelly Kline will build out InsideWomensBasketball.com as the centralized news, entertainment and social networking site for some 12 million fans and participants of women's basketball.
Bo Hee Kim, a UC Berkeley graduate student plans to build a more user- and geo-friendly mobile news site for the journalism school's three hyperlocal sites that she hopes will ultimately be used by other local sites.
2010 Winners
NolaVieTen Partners and Pop-up EventsJan. 12, 2012
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Investigative Mommy BloggerInvestigative Mommy Blogger Moves to More Robust Parent SiteJan. 12, 2012
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Mobile Black History ProjectAn Augmented-Reality App with Black History for 12 CitiesJan. 12, 2012
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Parent PathwayParents of Kids on Drugs can “Ask an Expert” or use “Meeting in a Box” ResourcesJan. 12, 2012
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After its first full year, NolaVie.com has partnership agreements with ten New Orleans cultural and arts groups, a discrete website and a page on The Times Picayune’s Nola.com.
The Investigative Mommy Blogger project’s mission is reviving investigative journalism, but also evolving it.
The Black History Mobile App had its fits and starts over the past 12 months, but the app formally launched in August 2011. We now have content for 12 U.S. cities.
Our Parent Pathway website was launched in July 2011. We began with a “soft launch” to ensure we had time for early viewers to give feedback so we could make any adjustments necessary.
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Have Questions?
View the live chat with Director Jan Schaffer to get your application questions answered.
Success in Philly
Philadelphia Enterprise Reporting Awards produces funds, journalism and more!
Research
J-Lab’s New Media Women Entrepreneurs Initiative undertook this study to understand how women are interacting with news, participating in the news, creating the news and consuming the news.
Read more.
Resources
Our learning modules, housed on KCNN.org, provide tips, tricks, and guides for citizen journalists and online news sites.
2009 Projects
ChickRxAn “edgy, approachable, and engaging” online health resource uniquely targeted to women, ages 18 to 27.
Locally Grown NewsA project that created a complete infrastructure, to be franchised, for those who want to launch hyperlocal news sites.
Good Food FightProject that connects food-conscious consumers with larger public policy issues that affect food choices and sustainability
2008 Projects
Echo AtlantaAn art and civic journalism project will produce and collect stories tied to physical locations throughout Atlanta.
Northwest Navy NewsNews for the 140,000 active-duty Navy and Coast Guard members, reservists, base employees and retirees in the Puget Sound area.
Latina VoicesDaily news and commentary by and for Latina women, covering such topics as immigration, health care, politics, education and culture.
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