Philadelphia Enterprise Reporting Awards

Journalism partnerships that received small awards to do 14 in-depth reporting projects produced more than 300 stories, blogs, podcasts, videos, databases and maps. They offer a replicable roadmap for jumpstarting public affairs reporting and media collaboration. View the press release and the report on the first year.

Launching a Nonprofit News Site

The number of nonprofit news ventures is increasing rapidly and you may be thinking about becoming a part of it. This guide will walk you through the process - including the hurdles and the requirements - whether you are seeking to establish a federally recognized 501(c)(3) organization or a project within a university or college.

By Brant Houston, executive director, Investigative Reporters and Editors, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Andy Hall, executive director, Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism

Likes & Tweets: Leveraging Social Media for News Sites

If you're like most journalists and media entrepreneurs, you use social media daily, but that doesn't mean you're doing all you could with it to engage with your community, listen and monitor the conversation, or use it to plan outreach campaigns around news events, real world meet-ups and breaking stories.

By Susan Mernit, Amy Gahran, and Kwan Booth of OaklandLocal

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

With journalism entrepreneurs launching local news startups at a rapid pace, the local news landscape is evolving ­- and so are the rules of the road guiding ethical decisions.

Outside-the-Box Community Engagement

Engaging readers is why your online news community exists. You can't use the wisdom of the crowds if the crowd isn't talking. Without fast and substantive engagement, you might as well publish a newspaper. So when you build it and they don't come, what do you do, short of waiting?

By David Poulson, editor of Great Lakes Echo. He is also the associate director of Michigan State University's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism. Great Lakes Echo is the successor to Great Lakes Wiki, launched in 2006 with a New Voices grant from J-Lab.