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WyoFile: Project Summary
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Given the challenges of reaching audiences in a sparsely populated place like Wyoming, WyoFile will marry tried-and-true membership recruitment strategies with a digital approach in a shoe-string budget.
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Investigative Post: Project Summary
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The Investigative Post seeks to explore social media as a tool to grow the organization’s readership, event attendance and drive donations.
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West Virginia Public Broadcasting: Project Summary
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WVPB will seek to gain expertise with the use of technology as a means of reaching a target audience such as veterans and potentially replicate its hypothesis with other audiences.
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Juvenile Justice Information Exchange: Project Summary
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JJIE hopes to learn more about what its readers want: what kind of specific information they need on a daily, weekly and bi-weekly basis; what it is that keeps them coming back and how to tailor content to their needs in the future.
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Seattle Globalist: Project Summary
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The experiment will narrow in on a “sweet spot” for workshop composition and workshop fees that will maximize both our return on investment and the number of workshop participants we are able to attract.
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New Jersey Spotlight: Project Summary
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The NJ Spotlight team says it hopes to make this into an annual event, providing a regular stream of income as well as an avenue for social engagement.
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Connecticut Health Investigative Team: Project Summary
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If proven successful, the experiment will show that engaging an audience and sponsors on key health issues is a replicable way to find financial solvency. Hosting events will help C-HIT continue to expand its visibility, which will lead to a larger audience and also strengthen its individual donor reach.
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Banyan Project: Project Summary
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Banyan seeks to learn how best to continually strengthen online news sites’ sustainability by 1) building reader engagement through Forums and Editorial Collaboration tools, and 2) building a base of donating members through the Conversion tools, creating a new revenue stream.
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Public Herald Update: Lessons From Taking Fracking Story to 15 States
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A low-cost experiment successfully blends creative art with hard-hitting journalism.
Events Journalism
FERN Update: Talks & Eats Successfully Launches But Not Without Its Challenges
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The sold-out event raised the nonprofit’s profile in New York, attracted future sponsors and donors, and exposed it to some lessons in event planning.
Innovation
IowaWatch Update: Connection Secures Underwriters, Set to Continue in 2015
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The Iowa State Bar Association and two media outlets of the Gazette Company have signed on to be the first underwriters of an Iowa nonprofit news radio program beginning in January 2015.
Innovation
InvestigateWest Update: Key to Successful Collaboration is Buy-In
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A collaboration between investigative journalism studio InvestigateWest and Seattle public radio station KUOW-FM aims to forge a new brand of journalism stretching across several mediums.
Innovation
IowaWatch Update: Will Experimental Radio Program Continue?
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IowaWatch is on a race against time to secure funding to keep its experimental radio program going beyond its original run.
Innovation
How Chalkbeat plans to use its database to maximize impact
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Earlier this year, the education-news network Chalkbeat launched a tool that helps reporters and editors keep track of their work’s impact. Now, Chalkbeat is taking its ambitions one step further by creating a new system that will help execute its organizational goals to achieve more impact.
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WKAR: Project Summary
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WKAR is creating a mobile app based on its “Off The Record” show squarely aimed at politically savvy millennials.
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Wisconsin Center for Investigative Reporting: Project Summary
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“Investigative Reporting + Art” will travel to several cities Wisconsin with a series of events, incorporating an art show and public forums on the issue.
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The Lens: Project Summary
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The Speakers Bureau will connect the local community face-to-face with Lens reporters and editors, explaining how and why they report the news.
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inewsource: Project Summary
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inewsource intends to grow its audience demographically and geographically by establishing a social media network of community news outlets in one virtual space.
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High Country News: Project Summary
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High Country News will expand its HCN University pilot program to reach future readers and leaders in college and university classrooms with free, semester long subscriptions to HCN.
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The Citizens Campaign: Project Summary
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This project, a Community Day, will provide a day-long series of events targeting the multitude of diverse populations in Paterson.