The Journalism History Hub: Developing a Research-based Interdisciplinary Social Network and Meta-Conference

Recipient: King, Elliott (Baltimore, MD 21210-2699 USA) in affiliation with Loyola College in Maryland (Baltimore, MD 21210 USA)

Goal: The development of a social network and repository system, called the Journalism History Hub, to support the field of history of journalism and to serve as a model for communities from other interdisciplinary fields.

Description: A Level II Digital Humanities Start-up grant, the Journalism History Hub will use Web 2.0 technology to support, enhance and provide an ongoing technological framework for scholarly communication and collaboration. Participants will have access to preprints and postprints of conference papers and abstracts, scholarly articles, and conference programs, with the added ability to comment on archived research and the opportunity to identify and collaborate with scholars working on similar issues across different disciplines in innovative ways. The grant will provide for planning, developing a prototype, initially populating, and soliciting participation in the Hub. Ultimately, the Hub proposes to "mash-up" social networking and content repository technology in conjunction with existing interdisciplinary scholarly communities who meet at specialized conferences.

Grant: 197792 / HD-50823-09,   Division: Digital Humanities,   Program: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants,   Year Awarded: 2009

No Job For a Woman: The Women Who Fought to Report World War II

Recipient: Fillion, Michele Midori (New York, NY 10011 USA) in affiliation with Women Make Movies, Inc. (New York, NY 10010 USA)

Goal: Scripting of a one-hour documentary film about the women journalists of World War II.

Description: "'No Job For a Woman': The Women Who Fought to Report World War II" will be the first film to focus on American women's role in reporting World War II. This important chapter in journalism history will show viewers how women, when given the opportunity, covered war on par with their male colleagues and how, when obstacles were put in their path, women surmounted them and developed a new way to cover war. The film will pose the question: did these women reporters plant the seeds of change for how future wars would be reported?

Grant: 181401 / TS-50014-06,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media TV Scripting,   Year Awarded: 2006

An Imperfect Revolution

Recipient: Smith, Stephen (Saint Paul, MN 55101 USA) in affiliation with Minnesota Public Radio (St. Paul, MN 55101 USA)

Goal: Development of a one-hour radio documentary and companion website and production of a pilot segment examining efforts to desegregate schools in six American cities in the 1970s.

Description: American RadioWorks requests $65,000 to support development of An Imperfect Revolution, a one-hour public radio documentary and Web site chronicling American school desegregation in the early 1970s. American schools were the central battle-ground in the fight to end Jim Crow because African Americans knew better schools held the key to upward mobility and full acceptance into American society. Despite significant desegregation since Brown, in the past ten years African American and Latino children have increasingly wound up in racially isolated, impoverished schools. ARW will document the struggle to desegrate the nation’s schools, which had a profound effect on American race relations in the rest of the 20th century.

Grant: 177120 / GN-50692-05,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2005

Preserving Fox Movietone Moving Images, 1927-1929

Recipient: Singleton, Benjamin F (Columbia, SC 29208 USA) in affiliation with University of South Carolina Research Foundation

Goal: The preservation of 225 original newsreel stories and associated outtakes housed in the university's Movietone Newsreel Collection that date from 1927 to 1929.

Grant: 162767 / PA-50177-03,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 2003

Thurgood Marshall Before the Court

Recipient: Smith, Stephen (Saint Paul, MN 55101 USA) in affiliation with Minnesota Public Radio (St. Paul, MN 55101 USA)

Goal: To produce a one-hour documentary program for radio, a series of short segments for radio magazine programs, and a website chronicling the legal career of Thurgood Marshall before he was appointed to the United States Supreme Court.

Grant: 164547 / GN-50157-03,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2003

Voices of the Mississippi Movement

Recipient: Smith, Stephen (Saint Paul, MN 55101 USA) in affiliation with Minnesota Public Radio (St. Paul, MN 55101 USA)

Goal: Consultation with scholars to develop radio programs on the history of the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi during the 1950s and 1960s.

Grant: 165626 / GN-50216-03,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2003

Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America: Walter Winchell and the Culture of Gossip

Recipient: Schnurman, Ned (Spartanburg, SC 29302 USA) in affiliation with ETV Endowment of South Carolina

Goal: To support the planning for a 90-minute documentary film on the life of Walter Winchell, 1897-1972, and his cultural and political impact.

Grant: 156808 / GN-24775-93,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1993

Ph.D. in Mass Communications

Recipient: Campbell, Christopher P (New Orleans, LA 70125 USA) in affiliation with Xavier University of Louisiana

Grant: 149428 / FG-20203-91,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Faculty Graduate Study Program for HBCUs,   Year Awarded: 1991

New York State Newspaper Project: Cataloguing

Recipient: Yavarkovsky, Jerome (Albany, NY 12230 USA) in affiliation with New York State Education Department (Albany, NY 12234 USA)

Goal: To support continuation of the first stage of the New York State Newspaper Project, which will ultimately involve cataloguing an estimated 25,000 newspapers and the microfilming of titles deemed most important for research.

Grant: 158678 / PS-20223-89,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects Pre 1996,   Year Awarded: 1989

New York State Newspaper Project: Cataloging

Recipient: Yavarkovsky, Jerome (Albany, NY 12230 USA) in affiliation with New York State Education Department (Albany, NY 12234 USA)

Goal: To support the first of several stages of New York State's participation in theU.S. Newspaper Program. During this stage, project staff will catalogue an estimated 6,000 newspaper titles held in the Albany and Rochester areas.

Grant: 158615 / PS-20072-87,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects Pre 1996,   Year Awarded: 1987

The Life and Work of Jacob A. Riis (Scripting: TV Documentary)

Recipient: Weiner, Jane P (New York, NY 10014-0000 USA) in affiliation with Jacob A. Riis Film Project Group (New York, NY 10014 USA)

Goal: To support production of a 60-minute documentary on the life and work of Danish-American journalist, photographer, and social reformer Jacob Riis.

Grant: 134786 / GN-21583-83,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 1983

Fellowship in the Humanities for Journalists

Recipient: Nelson, Lyle M (Stanford, CA 94305 USA) in affiliation with Stanford University

Grant: 128717 / FP-20054-82,   Division: Fellowships and Seminars,   Program: Fellowships & Stipends For Professionals,   Year Awarded: 1982

The Bicentennial of the Constitutional Series of Public Research, Syndicated

Recipient: Arnn, Larry P (Claremont, CA 91711 USA) in affiliation with Public Research, Syndicated (Montclair, CA 91763 USA)

Goal: To support planning for a series of newspaper articles for national syndicationon the U.S. Constitution, its origin and its place in our national life today.

Grant: 135240 / GP-20496-82,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Special Projects,   Year Awarded: 1982

Fellowships in the Humanities for Professional Journalists

Recipient: Nelson, Lyle M (Stanford, CA 94305 USA) in affiliation with Stanford University

Grant: 128716 / FP-*2133-81,   Division: Fellowships and Seminars,   Program: Fellowships & Stipends For Professionals,   Year Awarded: 1981

Fellowships in the Humanities for Professional Journalists

Recipient: Nelson, Lyle M (Stanford, CA 94305 USA) in affiliation with Stanford University

Grant: 128702 / FP-*1837-80,   Division: Fellowships and Seminars,   Program: Fellowships & Stipends For Professionals,   Year Awarded: 1980

A Pilot Project in Media Studies at Fordham University

Recipient: Lamb, Margaret A (New York, NY 10023 USA) in affiliation with Fordham University (Bronx, NY 10458 USA)

Goal: To support planning and implementation of undergraduate courses in journalism and film as literary forms. Internships and tutorial projects will be in- cluded in the program, which will stress communication arts as a part of the humanities curriculum. Proj. Director

Grant: 124716 / EP-*0453-80,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Pilot Grants - Education,   Year Awarded: 1980