USC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication has received a $12,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to launch an innovative partnership with the Hartsville Messenger, a twice-weekly newspaper in South Carolina’s Pee Dee region.
USC students and advisors from Newsplex will team with the Hartsville Messenger to recruit and train citizen journalists to contribute reports, blogs, video, and audio to either a new or improved Web site. It’s part of a pilot program that will result in a how-to guide for smaller news organizations seeking to embrace citizen journalism.
USC was among 10 institutions funded by the foundation; 243 funding proposals were submitted.
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