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Jane Briggs-Bunting
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Tandem Project Rolls On

Jane Briggs-Bunting
4:08 PM | bio | Comments: 0

As summer speeds by, the MSU/Detroit News contingent has been working with a software developer on the Tandem Project. We are also creating an advisory council to seed Detroit neighborhoods to get the community involved in the process. At the suggestion of Nancy Hanus, online editor, and Jonathan Morgan, multi-platform editor, at The News, we have enlisted the directors and faculty of four Detroit area universities, Oakland, University of Detroit Mercy, University of Michigan Dearborn and Wayne State to join the project. Their students will enroll in Jonathan's JRN 408 Community Journalism Tandem course this fall along with, we hope,... continued...

Topics: Education
Tagged: detroit news, michigan state, newspapers, tandem project

Tandem to be powered by local communities

Jane Briggs-Bunting
2:20 PM | bio | Comments: 1

We are charging ahead with the Tandem Project, developed by a team of students this past year as part of the Innovation Incubator Project. Partnering with The Detroit News on the project, we hope for a launch in summer if we can get software issues handled. Tandem hits at the very heart of community journalism. The idea is to have news stories percolate from local communities. Community members on a wiki-style site start discussing issues they are facing within their neighborhoods. It may be street lights that are not working, gang issues, or turning local vacant lots into farm gardens.... continued...

Topics: Education
Tagged: Innovation Incubator Project Michigan State University Tandem

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A. Adam Glenn

Citizen media project to track carbon tax in Boulder, CO
Aaditeshwar Seth

Connecting radio stations to the Net in rural India
Adrian Holovaty

Creating EveryBlock citizen database for info on neighborhoods
Amanda Hickman

Developing games to inform people about civic issues in NYC
Amy Gahran

Citizen media project to track carbon tax in Boulder, CO
Angela Powers

Creating academic incubator to help solve digital news problems
Ardyth Broadrick Sohn

Creating academic incubator to help solve digital news problems
Benjamin Melançon

Blogging about a module to help people connect related items
Bev Clark

Creating 'Freedom Fone,' news via voicemail in Zimbabwe
Brein McNamara

Empowering deaf people to become citizen journalists
Chris O’Brien

Planning an "ideal newsroom" and resources for the digital news era
Christopher Callahan

Starting Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at ASU
Dan Gillmor

Starting Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at ASU
Dan Pacheco

Helping people create custom, printable publications
Dan Schultz

Blogging about centralized, user-maintained news system
Daniel X. O'Neil

Creating EveryBlock citizen database for info on neighborhoods
David Ardia

Creating set of online legal resources for citizen journalists
David Cohn

Getting the public to fund local investigative journalism
David Sasaki

Rising Voices project to help developing world bloggers
Dianne Lynch

Creating academic incubator to help solve digital news problems
Dori J. Maynard

Blogging about creating diversity in digital media
Ellen Hume

Creating a Center for Future Civic Media at MIT Media Lab
Fabio Berzaghi

Creating news simulation game to help understand complex issues
G. Patton Hughes

Blogging about making Paulding.com a financial success
Gabriel Berrios

Making webcasts for Philadelphia's immigrant community
Gail Robinson

Developing games to inform people about civic issues in NYC
Geoff Dougherty

Recruiting 75 citizen journalists for local Chicago site
Guy Berger

Connecting diverse neighborhoods with mobile news in S. Africa
Henry Jenkins

Creating a Center for Future Civic Media at MIT Media Lab
Ian V. Rowe

MTV citizen reports on presidential election
J.D. Lasica

Blogging about a media toolset to expand public participation
Jane Briggs-Bunting

Creating academic incubator to help solve digital news problems
Jay Rosen

Blogging about how reporters can work with social networks
Jessica Mayberry

Training people in rural India to be video producers
Kathleen Hansen

Creating news simulation game to help teach complex issues
Kimberly Sultze

Creating academic incubator to help solve digital news problems
Leslie Rule

Using GPS tracking to inform people through mobile media
Lisa Williams

Promoting "universal geo-tagging" on blogs for local info
Liz Nord

MTV citizen reports on presidential election
Mark Glaser

Editor of Idea Lab and PBS MediaShift sites
Mitchel Resnick

Creating a Center for Future Civic Media at MIT Media Lab
Nora Paul

Creating news simulation game to help understand complex issues
Pam McAllister-Johnson

Creating academic incubator to help solve digital news problems
Paul Grabowicz

Re-creating Oakland's bygone jazz scene as virtual world
Paul Lamb

Using GPS tracking to inform people through mobile media
Rich Gordon

Blending computer science and journalism in one academic program
Richard Anderson

Building an open-source version of VillageSoup
Ryan Sholin

Creating site for reporters to share ideas, resources
Sandra Ekong

Encouraging green living through interactive game, Beanstockd
Steven Clift

Sharing big ideas from the world of citizen engagement online
Todd Wolfson

Making webcasts for Philadelphia's immigrant community
Tony Shawcross

Helping public access TV stations share content online