A beta test for Representative Journalism

The community blog and podcast that I co-host in my hometown, Locally Grown, has been chosen to test an innovative project called Representative Journalism, led by Communication Chair and Associate Professor Leonard Witt and colleagues at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. See Len’s blog post for details, as well as this press release (PDF).

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Over half of the $51,000 grant from the Harnisch Family Foundation will flow to Northfield. My co-hosts and I will be paid for our time on the project. The Representative Journalism (RepJ) project will contract with a professional journalist who will be based locally. And money’s allocated to experiment with different ways to make the project financially sustainable.

Project staff will be visiting Northfield in mid-March to conduct interviews and help us get launched.