Facebook is teaming up with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation on a pilot project to bring training and support from the social network directly into the newsrooms of local and nonprofit news organizations.
Local networks are being established with the Knight Foundation, the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, the Detroit Journalism Cooperative and Montclair State University’s Center for Cooperative Media, and Josh Mabry and Dorrine Mendoza, who work on news partnerships for Facebook, said in a blog post that the initial participants in the pilot project are local and community newsrooms that are part of the LION, INN and Detroit Journalism Cooperative networks, as well as major metropolitan news organizations that are part of the Knight-Lenfest Newsroom Initiative, including:
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Houston Chronicle
- The Miami Herald
- The Minneapolis Star-Tribune
- The Dallas Morning News
- The San Jose Mercury News
- The Seattle Times
- The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Mabry and Mendoza offered more details on...
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