Idea Lab

The Importance of Collective Memory, in Latvia and Beyond

by Victoria Fine
2011 Knight News Challenge Winner

While the holiday season gears up around the world, we at the Tiziano Project are throwing ourselves into the festivities by kicking off three new programs on different continents. We just began the remote component of a new training in Palestine, as well as an after-school program in South Central Los Angeles. Finally, our team hit the ground in Riga, Latvia just in time for Thanksgiving. Our Latvia program is a dramatic change from our usual digs -- instead of teaching in rolling blackouts in 130-degree heat, we've had the delight of kicking off our program in two castle-cum-classrooms, to...

• December 6, 2011
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How to Produce Groundbreaking Journalism on the Cheap

by Victoria Fine
2011 Knight News Challenge Winner

We at The Tiziano Project were shocked and honored last week to be named as finalists for the 2011 Online Journalism Awards in the categories of General Excellence in Online Journalism - Micro Site and Community Collaboration. The Tiziano Project provides community members in conflict, post-conflict, and underreported regions with the equipment, training and affiliations necessary to report their stories and improve their lives. We're nominated for our citizen journalism site, 360 | Kurdistan, a project that was produced on a shoestring budget, with a group of incredibly talented volunteers. When I say shoestring, I mean it -- during...

• September 7, 2011
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