Matador Network - Hybrid - www.matadornetwork.com

Matador Network, an independent media company, represents a travel community of truth seekers. We encourage contributors and over 1,000,000 monthly readers to explore and share global stories transparently. We advocate open and honest dialogue through our MatadorU program, endorsed by National Geographic Traveler as an important venue they use to find talented new writers and photographers. Matador seeks help identifying and securing sponsors to send select students on global awareness assignments upon graduation ranging from trips documenting vanishing cultures via photography to covering human-impact social events through narrative travel writing. Qualifying students will be selected through competitions and portfolio reviews.

"Unplug the Signal" - Hybrid - http://www.unplugthesignal.com/

I am a visual artist; I have begun a campaign to create awareness of the gross manipulation of information by the 6 corporations that control television content in this country. With the average American watching more than 4 hours of television each day, the TV plays a major role in creating the consciousness of Americans. By turning the television off and seeking alternative sources of information, Americans are likely to become better informed, consume less, healthier, and more highly engaged within the places we live. You can help the "Unplug the Signal" campaign by creating an effective online movie.

Maynard Institute for Journalism Education - Non-Profit - www.mije.org

Studies repeatedly show that skewed news media portrayals of people of color has a devastating effect on our public policy, from issues of school reform to incarceration.

Our project allows users to see how individual perspective determines which facts get included in a news story, and how that, in turn, shapes the overall perspective of the story.

Maynard staff will post several stories on a subject. Users would be given a list of facts and could build their own story, which would then be rated to demonstrate which "fault lines” perspectives are included in the story.

San Francisco Public Press - Non-Profit - http://sfpublicpress.org

The San Francisco Public Press is a nonprofit, noncommercial news organization dedicated to doing for print and Web journalism what public broadcasting has done for radio and television. Our mission is to enrich civic life in San Francisco by delivering public-interest journalism to broad and diverse audiences through print and interactive media not supported by advertising.

We publish online at sfpublicpress.org and this summer began printing a quarterly, ad-free newspaper with the help of more than 70 professional and volunteer journalists, and through partnerships with nonprofit and independent news organizations, which provide about one third of the content for the print edition.

For 2011, we are planning a series of quarterly investigative projects examining the effectiveness of several high-profile municipal initiatives in San Francisco. We hope Free Range can help us create viral marketing campaigns around these four projects — which will be released simultaneously online and in print — using web design, social media, photography, interactive multimedia and real world marketing efforts.