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Zoom Georgia News Lab Looks to Fill A Void for Newsrooms | MediaShift “The Georgia News Lab is not a “scientific” project. Instead, it is a journalism experiment, born from an effort to address a longstanding problem in newsrooms — a lack of women and...

Georgia News Lab Looks to Fill A Void for Newsrooms | MediaShift

The Georgia News Lab is not a “scientific” project. Instead, it is a journalism experiment, born from an effort to address a longstanding problem in newsrooms — a lack of women and minorities, particularly in investigative reporting. The project is a partnership between four college journalism programs, including two Historically Black Colleges and Universities, plus the dominant news outlets in the region — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WSB-TV, which are both part of the Cox Media Group. The university partners are the University of Georgia, Morehouse College, Clark Atlanta University and the highly diverse Georgia State University.

The Online News Association recently awarded the News Lab the Grand Prize of itsChallenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education. Of the 23 finalists selected from nearly 200 applicants, ONA selected the News Lab as the project “most likely to change either local news gathering, journalism education or both.”

(Source: mediashift.org)

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