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Hi all,
Super thrilled to announce changes to the Knight-Mozilla Partnership
today, including a new name!
The full announcement blog is here:

Right now, the United States is not one of the nations most supportive of a free press, according to an annual assessment by Reporters Without Borders. It slipped from 20th place to 47th place in the latest rankings:
[link]
And here are some of the reasons:

To Fellow JTMers:
This email is about a unique opportunity and a request for a dialogue.
In between ongoing work with the Reynolds Journalism Institute, JTM and
several other projects, I agreed last fall to be coordinator of the second
annual U.S. Slow Living Summit, May 30-June 1 in Brattleboro, Vt. Many of

Here's a fellowship opportunity at University of Missouri's Reynolds Journalism Institute that may interest some of you:
[link]
Peggy
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Peggy Holman
Journalism that Matters
15347 SE 49th Place
Bellevue, WA 98006
425-746-6274
[link]

I'm forwarding an opportunity sent to me by John Hamer, President, Washington News Council.
Peggy
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From Justin:
Hi everyone. I'm an African-based investigative journalist and open data advocate, who works right across the continent for a number of major media, plus industry bodies. I'm currently involved in strengthening existing Centres for Investigative Reporting (CIRs), setting up a network of HacksHackers chapters, managing a $1m annual innovation fund for journalism, and setting up a j-incubator with resident geeks & data viz ninjas. I hate needlessly re-inventing the wheel, so would love to tap into the insight of the folk on this group. Cheers, Justin

*Cross posted via Knight-Mozilla community list. From: Justin Arenstein <
justinarenst...@gmail.com>*
Africa's 1st data journalism bootcamp is offering free seats to 25
developers / coders who are interested in building apps for civic media /
open data audiences.
The event is scheduled for Nairobi between January 25 - 27, 2012, and is

Hi Folks,
Journalism That Matters Media Deserts/News Oasis project is based on a
national map I'm building that looks at places where news and
information sources are scarce. Many of you have started projects in
your area because you saw this lack. If you have a geographical or
topical "desert" that you can help identify, please let me know.

Found out about this via this thread on the Journalism Accelerator:
[link]
*To post your own comment to the FCC, click on the “submit a filing” link
on the side or click
here<[link]>.

Holy leaping frog monsters from hell!
josh
[link]
[image: oregonlive.com]
Northwest Trustee Services squeezes more profits from home foreclosures
with one-stop model Published: Saturday, January 14, 2012, 10:27 PM
Updated: Sunday, January 15, 2012, 1:33 PM

For several months, during the unfolding events of the Occupy
movement, supporters, media and world observers have been wondering,
'where is this movement heading?' Developing both some signposts and a
compass for that question, we provide the media, activists, academics,
and an engaged public with curated information and insights about the

Where Patch few ambitiously through small suburban markets, GoLocal is
expanding slowly through mid-sized markets. A smarter move, I think.
[link]

A fascinating collection of articles from [link]
Accessibility vs. Access: How the Rhetoric of “Rare” Is Changing in the Age of Information Abundance by Maria Popova (@brainpicker) at Nieman Journalism Lab
Wikipedia and The Death of the Expert by Maria Bustillos (@mariabustillos) at The Awl

I got an email today from Sue Ellen isacksen (Christian) at Western
Michigan University, a multi-JTM event alumna. She's just published a book
that could help journalists become more sensitive to their communities,
and tell more relevant stories.
The book is entitled: "Overcoming Bias: A
Journalist's Guide to Culture and Context."

Hi, ya, folks. For a paper I am writing, please share some of the terms
you and your respected colleagues use that might be obscure or even
incomprehensible for the people less involved with civic media and the
future of news.
Data catalogs, SEO, digital inclusion, STEM--what terms can you send me
that I might include in this list?

This is a pickup of a news release from USC-Annenberg's Center for Digital Future. The PDF version is at their website at the address shown below if you'd rather read clean PDF, but this plain-text version can be excerpted and commented upon more readily. Cole is opening an important set of debates. The assertion of timing -- five years or something else -- isn't as important as **what to do about it now.** And do you agree that our privacy is lost? Is that acceptable? Should, or can, legislation restore it? What opportunity is presented by the finding that a majority of people don't trust social media?

Friends,
I got the message below from a friend. If you have any advice or thoughts, please send to George Por <Geo...@Community-Intelligence .com>. And if you see it as an appropriate subject for the list, I'll forward any comments posted to the list to George.
thanks,
Peggy
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I recently spoke with Jane Stevens about [link], which just won an EPPY for Editor & Publisher for Best Community Service on a Media-Affiliated Website with fewer than 250,000 unique monthly visitors.
Jane was passionate about the importance of the interaction between journalists and community as a result of their WellCommons experience. She just wrote a terrific piece about it for the Knight Digital Media Center:

[link]
She writes:
"The Case for Open Journalism Now" is a hopeful yet pragmatic argument
for journalism.s future as a public good. It addresses a basic question of
the digital age: with information flowing everywhere, how does journalism
provide value? The answers lie in a new orienting idea for journalism that