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Interesting press release from Jason at CCTV.

J-Lab, the Institute for Interactive Journalism is a winner of a 2007 New Voices grant. CCTV’s project, Neighbor to Neighbor, will embed citizen journalists in the city’s neighborhoods to create media. N2N will provide residents the information they need to fully participate in civic life and will foster individual and collective action to improve the quality of life in Cambridge.”

Five segments, one from each of the city’s zip codes, will be produced each month, highlighting news and events from across the city. Segments from each neighborhood will be edited into one 30-minute program that will be cablecast on CCTV’s Channel 9, streamed live on CCTV’s web site, and made available for on-demand viewing and download. Segments will also be incorporated into CCTV’s web-based Cambridge Media Map.

I’ll be interested to see how this turns out, and about it’s extensibility beyond Cambridge.