Media Evolution – Hear the Roar

National Public Radio

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and the Knight Foundation have granted $3 million for a two-year pilot project for National Public Radio (NPR), which Michael Caruso of Minnesota Public Radio is saying on Twitter will be NPR and local station partnerships.

The  CPB and Knight Foundation grants ($2 mil and $1 mil respectively) will allow about a dozen NPR stations throughout the U.S. with established news operations to hire new journalist bloggers. Each will focus exclusively on reporting and aggregating news about a topic relevant to that city, and the stations will feed the content into NPR’s  content management system (CMS.) Then all participants will be able to view each other’s work.  Read more on BlackIPress.com .