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City Voices City Visions Research Docs: @http://gse.buffalo.edu/org/cityvoices/Research.html


 * Promethesus Radio Project:** This page describes how community members in hundreds of communities around the country have planned and implemented successful resolution efforts. Each section provides links to documents and tools they have used. We invite you to use these steps and documents and adapt them to your needs. **You may also download a __[|print version]__ of the entire toolkit.** @http://prometheusradio.org/toolkit And **Promethesus Advocacy Packet**: @http://prometheusradio.org/images/documents/lpfmadvocacypacket.2009.pdf


 * PBS Teachers Newsletter:** @http://www.pbs.org/teachers/newsletter/

**New Voices: What Works** **Lessons From Funding Five Years of Community News Startups**
@http://www.kcnn.org/images/uploads/what_works.pdf begets more content and whets the interest of potential contributors. The sites that have engaged their communities in multiple ways show the most promise. enterprise: Citizen journalism math is working out this way: Fewer than one in 10 of those you train will stick around to be regular contributors. Even then, they may be “regular” for only a short period of time. Projects that expected to generate content by training a corps of citizen journalists had to develop alternative plans for stories or they struggled with little compelling content. the grit and passion of a particular founder or corps of founders have created the most robust models for short- and long-term sustainability. While many all-volunteer sites are showing great promise for sustainability, other site founders want to develop their sites as a sustainable business that can pay staff or contributors. and other social media tools are ushering in a New Age for Community News, creating robust recruiting, marketing, distribution, collaboration, reporting and funding opportunities. Community news sites would not exist without the tech tools for building easy websites and creating digital content. However, efforts to build custom websites led to frequent and lengthy delays and repeated advice to start simply. Projects that counted on partnerships with legacy news outlets ultimately found it best to go it alone as newsroom cutbacks left editors with no time to partner. Once launched, though, the New Voices projects found that partners came knocking. University-led projects built with student journalists need to operate year-round to avoid losing momentum and community trust. They hold great promise but must surmount great hurdles. sought to train middle or high school students to report on news in their community produced infrequent content and fell prey to high trainer turnover and a need for great supervision. They should be secondary or tertiary, not primary, generators of content. promise as community news outlets, community radio as well as cable access television stations need additional support and stable project leadership to deliver daily newscasts.
 * **Engagement is key**: Robust and frequent content
 * **Citizen journalism** is a high-churn, high-touch
 * **Sweat equity counts for a lot**: Projects built on
 * **Community news sites are not a business yet**:
 * **Social media is game changing**: Facebook, Twitter
 * **Technology can be a blessing and a curse**:
 * **Legacy news outlets are not yet in the game**:
 * **The academic calendar is not good enoug**h:
 * **Youth media should be supplemental**: Projects that
 * **Community radio needs help**: While showing