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mediageek 26 March 2009: Knight Drupal Initiative Funds Innovative Open Source Platforms for Online Journalism

The Knight Foundation’s Drupal Initiative awarded $480,000 to six different projects using the Drupal open source content management platform to develop innovative online applications for journalism. Jose Zamora, journalism program associate at the Knight Foundation, tells us more about the initiative.

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mediageek 26 February 2009: New Hope for LPFM & the Chicago Journalism Town Hall

Another year, another bill to restore LPFM is introduced into Congress. Only, this time, with GW Bush out of the White House and Democrats in charge of Congress, it looks like LPFM has a fighting chance. Also, we listen to excerpts from the Chicago Journalism Town Hall tackling head on the future of local news as the commercial papers stand on the brink of extinction.

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[mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090226.mp3[/mp3]

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