The Future of Digital Media

Just back from the Knight Digital Media Center news entreprenuer bootcamp. 12 out of 15 projects were nonprofit -- lots of hope that that the "NPR model" will drive the future of local news. Though a big NPR supporter, I'm banking on my favorite source of support: the university. Still inspired by Kate Hale's imperative to make some use of the useless effort put into the student essay, I've assigned my humanties students a series of arts reviews over the last term and had them post them online. At the same time, I'm editing a Knight-funded project at performancejournalism.com to provide coverage of the dance community to other news outlets free of charge. A great idea, but my dream is to put the two projects together and create a citizen-critics brigade that harnesses social media to extend the conversation (and experience) of the arts from a few experts to a whole community. I have colleagues at Univeristy of Miami and Miami Dade College to create a consortium and get hundreds of students out reviewing.

Does anyone know of any other public/private/university arts journalism projects?