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New
Grants of up to $10,000
For Reporting on Community Health
Policy
Application Deadline: July
22, 2009
Los Angeles -The University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism is pleased to announce the launch of the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, which will offer grants of between $2,500 and $10,000 this year to as many as 10 print, broadcast and new media journalists. The grants support ambitious investigative or explanatory journalism projects on community health policy. Joint projects between mainstream and ethnic/community media are encouraged.
The deadline to apply for this year's grants is July 22.
Online applications, and additional information about this program, are available at:
http://www.reportingonhealth.org/fellowships/seminars/dennis-hunt-fund-health-journalism
For more information and an application, contact Martha Shirk at cahealth@usc.edu or call (213) 437-4439. Grants will be offered again in 2010 and 2011.
The Hunt Fund will support projects that examine the effects on a community's health of factors such as poverty, health disparities, pollution, violence, land use, urban development, access to health resources and access to healthy food. The fund honors the legacy of Dennis A. Hunt, a visionary communications leader at The California Endowment.
The fund is administered by the USC Annenberg/California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships, which was co-founded by Hunt. The fund is financed by memorial contributions from Hunt's friends and colleagues.Grantees will be selected by an advisory board, which includes professionals working in journalism, public policy and communications.
Grants, which are open to both newsroom staffers and freelancers, can defray reporting and publishing-related costs such as travel, Web development, database acquisition, translation services, and a journalist's otherwise uncompensated time. Eighty percent of the amount of each grant will be paid at the outset of the project, with the remaining 20 percent to be paid upon publication or broadcast. Stories must be published or broadcast within one year of grant awards.
Grant recipients also are automatically awarded acceptance in the National Fellowships of The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships. Applicants are expected to join ReportingonHealth.org, a new Web 2.0 community for health journalism and the official Web site for the Fellowships. |
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The Future
of Journalism interview series and online book has been published.
Individuals interviewed range from John Yemma, Christian Science
Monitor Editor, to Chris O'Brien, head of Next Newsroom Project. To access the online book and raw interviews, please visit: http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sectionex/Itemid,200076/id,8/view,category/#catid69 |
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If you would like more information on this collaborative project, please email Sandra Ordonez at sandy@ourblook.com. |
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FREE BLOG
ACCOUNTS FOR LAID OFF JOURNALIST |
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It’s
a long way from $700
billion, but the media
start-up Six Apart is introducing its own economic bailout plan. The
TypePad
Journalist Bailout Program offers recently terminated bloggers and
journalists
a free pro account (worth $150 annually) on the company's popular
blogging
platform. In addition to the free yearly membership, the 20 to 30
journalists
who are accepted will receive professional tech support, placement on
the
company's blog aggregation site, Blogs.com, and automatic enrollment in
the
company's advertising revenue-sharing program. |
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http://www.typepad.com/blogging/bailout.html |
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STUDENT
WRITERS AND MENTORS |
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Student
Writers and Mentors Sought – A newly
launched
website created with a J-Lab, the Institute for Interactive Journalism,
and
McCormick Foundation grant for New Media Women Entrepreneurs,latina-voices.com, is
seeking
students
interested in writing for the website. A small stipend may be offered
to
student writers. Mentors are also being sought to encourage the
students to
develop their writing and reporting voices. Editor Teresa Puente is
working
with about 10 students in Chicago,
but if you want to mentor any in your area, let her know. |
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Students can also submit their work directly to the site. For more information contact tpuente@colum.edu |
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INTERPRETING AND TRANSLATIONS |
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NETworkOmni |
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NetworkOmni is
one of the largest International interpreting and translation
companies,with offices in the US, Canada, South America, and the
Dominican Republic.
Currently we are looking to identify individuals who are good bilinguals in Spanish and maybe interested in working as an over the phone interpreters, All hours of the day or night are available. Even part-time (2-6 hours) are available. We have immediate openings. Our clients include 911Services for states and municipalities, insurance carriers, financial services companies, healthcare organizations, and hospitality industry companies. The customers in this instance, speak Spanish fluently but very little English, so our interpreters serve as the "bridge" between our English- speaking clients and their Spanish speaking customers. Our compensation program are industry- competitive. We are a great source of monthly income for any good bilingual who wish to work in our Thousand Oaks center or from home. |
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Marcia Rodriguez |
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