Four women have been chosen to receive New Media Women Entrepreneur grants from J-Lab. Read more about them!

News Site in a Box

Looking to build a news site from scratch? Here's a quick tutorial on how to do it.

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Launching a Nonprofit News Site

Want to launch a nonprofit news site? Here's a step-by-step guide to jump start your efforts.

Philadelphia Enterprise Reporting Awards

Read how fourteen media partnerships awarded $5,000 apiece a year ago produced hundreds of pieces of content and made a citywide impact.

Leverage Your Social Media
Engage with your community, listen and monitor the conversation and plan outreach campaigns around news events, real world meet-ups and breaking stories with our learning module.

Hiring a Designer or Developer
Learn the nuts and bolts of hiring an outside expert to help design or develop your site.

Sales, Fundraising and E-commerce
How to sell ads, identify revenue opportunities and maintaining your ethics and standards.

Searchable Community Databases
Troves of data exist online about your community. Understand and break apart the data to tell a compelling story.

Understanding Traffic
Learn how to track your users to gague growth, time spent on site, bounce rate and loyalty.

Reading Resources
View Mark Briggs' blog on the changing realm of journalism and how to be a news entrepreneur in it!

J-Learning offers tips and tools for using hardware and software to create community news sites.

The Knight Community News Network is a sister site to help journalists build skills for community news sites.

They are produced by J-Lab.

Outside-the-Box Community Engagement
Created by Dave Poulson, editor of Great Lakes Echo.

The Freebies List
A list of 73 free or inexpensive resources that you can use in reporting, multimedia storytelling and managing Web sites.

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Jan Schaffer, Executive Director of J-Lab, writes regularly on observations and learnings in the community news and journalism innovation world.

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Rules of the Road: Nativating the New Ethics of Local Journalism

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