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—Katharine Graham

Projects

2012 Projects

  • ClearHealthCostsClearHealthCosts

    Building off a platform of reports, databases, blogs and crowdsourcing, Jeanne Pinder and ClearHealthCosts have a mission to be the best online source of health care pricing.

  • SymboliaSymbolia

    Symbolia, headed by Erin Polgreen, strives to be the ideal place to foster the growth of comics journalism, engaging a new generation of news consumer in a way that is exciting and accessible.

  • Carolina Public PressCarolina Public Press

    Angie Newsome started CarolinaPublicPress as North Carolina's first online-only, independent nonprofit news.

  • The Seattle Lesbian The Seattle Lesbian

    The Seattle Lesbian is a daily publication run by journalist Sarah Toce. The site provides a hitherto unseen source of multi-layer news for the LGBT community,

 

2011 Projects

  • Visualizing EconomicsVisualizing Economics

    Catherine Mulbrandon is expanding VisualizingEconomics.com and creating illustrated guides to help explain economics.

  • Silicon Hills NewsSiliconHillsNews.com

    TechChi blogger and journalist Laura Lorek is building out a startup news site for tech and biotech news in the Austin-San Antonio region.

  • Full CourtInside Women's Basketball

    Atlanta documentarian and photographer Kelly Kline is building out InsideWomensBasketball.com as a centralized site for some 12 million fans and participants of women's basketball.

  • Richmon ConfidentialMobile News Platform for Hyperlocal News

    Bo Hee Kim, a UC Berkeley graduate student is building a more user- and geo-friendly mobile news site for the journalism school's three hyperlocal sites.

 

2010 Projects

  • Mobile Black History App Mobile Black History Project

    Using augmented reality to bring black history to the forefront, starting with historic sites in Washington, D.C.

  • NolaVie NolaVie

    New Orleans’ vibrant culture will take center stage with NolaVie, an unusual public/private partnership to cover arts and culture.

  • Investigative Mommy BlogInvestigative Mommy Blogger

    A team lead by social media expert Kelby Carr will focus on investigations using a network of mom bloggers.

  • Parent PathwayParent Pathway

    An organization devoted to the idea of arming parents with information on how to handle the treacherous waters of substance abuse.

 

2009 Projects

  • image ChickRx

    An “edgy, approachable, and engaging” online health resource uniquely targeted to women, ages 18 to 27.

  • image Locally Grown News

    A project that created a complete infrastructure, to be franchised, for those who want to launch hyperlocal news sites.

  • image Good Food Fight

    Project that connects food-conscious consumers with larger public policy issues that affect food choices and sustainability

 

2008 Projects

  • image Echo Atlanta

    An art and civic journalism project will produce and collect stories tied to physical locations throughout Atlanta.

  • image Northwest Navy News

    News for the 140,000 active-duty Navy and Coast Guard members, reservists, base employees and retirees in the Puget Sound area.

  • image Latina Voices

    Daily news and commentary by and for Latina women, covering such topics as immigration, health care, politics, education and culture.