Saturday ended with a crowd-sourced selection of projects to “pitch” to coaches on Sunday.

The twelve projects pitched are below, with notes of the awards they received.

The top three vote getters received $500 each and access to coaching from Chris Rabb using the Invisible Capital toolkit.

The Wake Up Tour and

Show Me Your I.D.

Tani Ikeda, Jasiri X,  Sandy Ordonez, Paradise Gray, Matt Renner, Lauren Harbury, Jeff Hermes

These two projects combined to do their pitch.  See the opening.

Homewood Nation – The Homewood 100 Initiative – Elwin Green

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Documenting Durham – Travis Mitchell

Received award from the Council for Entrepreneurial Development, Durham, NC

She Who Holds the Pen Publishing Institute – Tamara Jeffries (Bennett College)
Received award from the Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship

Global Citizen Journalism (GCJ): Diversity of Convergence – Seung-Hyun Lee
Received award from Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University

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Empowering Tomorrow – Barbara Lewis

Digital DNA – Digital Identity Management and Community Mapping System – Michelle Ferrier, Byung Lee, Mani St. Victor, Rick Rodgers, Kaycie Coy, Norm Roulet

The Obama Effect – Paradise Gray

immediate Justice hotline – Tani Ikeda

Media Reinvestment – Jordan Green

Hill District Historians Oral History Project – C. Denise Johnson

Create or Die 2 opened with conversations among participants about:

• What’s one thing that could happen here that would blow your mind?
• What do you need to create that experience?

After conversations in small groups, people introduced themselves with a “Tweet”:

• Bridge the digital divide by creating a global dialogue between girls – Tani Ikeda, @taniappleseed
• Create long lasting, successful relationships with news junkies – @andrewhumphrey
• Create the ‘creative valley’ of new media for people of color here on I-85 corridor -Michelle Ferrier, @mediaghosts
• What would blow my mind is if we could get young people interested in journalism again.” -Barbara Lewis
• If communities could understand and use the power of digital storytelling to tell their stories.” -Sono Hashisaki
• Find a way to encourage leaders and audiences to be active participants in democracy.” -Jordan Green
• Striving to break boundaries of career divides through similarities in opinions and interests.” -Kaycie Coy, UNCG student
• 1Hood debuts innovates national TV network dedicated to balanced media. – @ParadiseGray
• Broadening horizons, knowledge, ideas through collaboration. @laurenharbury
• Taking strong legacy, media skills, applying them to new media efforts. – Tamara Jeffries, Bennett College professor, @tamjeffries
• Telling undertold stories by creating a global dialogue b/w womyn and girls. -Filmmaker @taniappleseed
• Recognize hip-hop is new millennium journalism.” – @jasiri_x
• Close info gap for underserved communities. Need: build awareness at issue & bring corporations to the table. – Tameka Green, @Tameka_Green
• A networking opportunity with comm. professionals that’ll lead to an internship or job.” – Edith Veremu, @everemu10
• Tangible item to build upon vs. having to build once we are home. -Sandy Ordonez, @collaboracion
• Collaborate for multi-media 1st person storytelling.” – Akiba Smith-Francis, @steppingoffpath
• Finding new ways to engage youth through the media that are innovative and creative.” -Carmen Lee of Pa.
• Sustainable model for paying for unbiased content urgently needed. -Elon professor Amanda Sturgill
• Diverse ideas that work.” -A&T professor Teresa Styles
• Blowing my mind would take creating a way to isolate journalism that matters, like spam filter on your email. – Logan DeHart, UNCG student
• It would blow my mind if every 3rd news story I heard included a voice of color. – Leoneda Inge
• If all journalism startups could both know what resources they need and have easy access to them. -Jeff Hermes, @HermesJP
• If JTM is successful, the spiral of silence will be broken. -Byung Lee, Elon communications professor
• @AHN (All Healdine News) unites indi journos, beats @APStylebook all the time. -Melvin “Buddy” Baker
• Growing as an individual and an editor from the collaborative interactions with the professionals at this conference. James Nichols, UNCG student
• Creative focus. Synergy. Moving ideas forward. Through collaborative effort.
• Active people creating a social collaboratory connecting neighbors. – Derrick Foust, UNCG student
• Through the voice of the arts, how can we inspire students to take action in our community.  – James Mieczowski, UNCG student

Greensboro, North Carolina is a revolutionary town, starting from its Quaker roots and routes in the Underground Railroad to its American Revolutionary War battlegrounds where Nathanael Greene fought the British to the birthplace of the civil rights sit-in movement in downtown. Here is where we will seed our conversations of disrupting the status quo with innovation and journalism entrepreneurship.

International Civil Rights Center and Museum, Greensboro

Travel
By air: Greensboro is reached via the Piedmont Triad International Airport (GSO) in Greensboro. Several major airlines travel into GSO including American Airlines, Continental, Delta, United and US Airways.  Allegiant Air also flies into Greensboro and is an easy and inexpensive option for travel from Florida cities such as Tampa/St. Pete, Orlando and Fort Myers/Punta Gorda. The Raleigh-Durham International Airport is also within a 1 ½-hour drive of Greensboro.

By rail: Amtrak runs high-speed rail service into downtown Greensboro.

By car: Greensboro is a reasonable one-day drive from many points on the East Coast, including a 5-hour drive from Washington, D.C. to the north or a 5 ½-hour drive from Atlanta, Georgia to the south.

Lodging – Apartment-Style Dorm
For participants comfortable with shared bath (and private bedroom), we recommend apartment-style dormitory accommodations to foster informal conversation.  The dorm is a three-block walk from the University of North Carolina Greensboro Elliott University Center where the conference sessions will take place. UNCG has set aside single-rooms in four-room, shared-bath suites in the Spring Garden Apartments.

These apartments consist of four, single bedroom units with a shared living room, full kitchen and two bathrooms.

The Spring Garden Apartments at UNCG.

Single-occupancy bedrooms at Spring Garden Apartments.

Four bedrooms surround a full kitchen and living room area at Spring Garden Apartments.

The living room area at the Spring Garden Apartments at UNCG.

The courtyard at Spring Garden Apartments at UNCG.

Lodging – Hotel
We are recommending the Greensboro Marriott Downtown, 304 North Greene Street, Greensboro, which is 1.34 miles from the UNCG’s Elliott University Center. The special room rate is $99+tax per night. Contact the hotel directly at 336-379-8000. Ask for the “Journalism That Matters” rate. Participants choosing this option will be responsible for their own transportation to/from the UNCG campus.

Meals
All meals, except for our Saturday night on the town, are included in the registration fee.

Parking
Parking at the University of North Carolina Greensboro is available to visitors on a space available basis. Parking is $1 per hour or $6 for the daily maximum per entry at several parking decks.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Journalism That Matters?
What is Open Space Technology?
What is Create or Die 2?
Why North Carolina? Why Now?
What Can You Do?

What is Journalism That Matters?
Journalism That Matters inspires, convenes and connects the diverse people molding the media of tomorrow. Our events and initiatives foster innovation and build bridges between the evolving journalism community and civic leaders and activists. JTM members help shape the emerging news and information ecosystem, creating journalism that both matters and supports a free democracy.  For more information, visit www.journalismthatmatters.org.

What is Open Space Technology?
Open Space Technology is the organizing process at the heart of Journalism That Matters unconferences.  It enables diverse, even conflicted groups of people to create inspired meetings and events. In Open Space meetings, participants create and manage their own agenda of parallel working sessions around a central theme of strategic importance, such as: How do we nurture the innovators and serve the diverse communities of the new news and information landscape?

With groups of 5 to 2000+ people — working in one-day workshops, three-day conferences, or the regular weekly staff meeting — the common result is a powerful, effective connecting and strengthening of what’s already happening in the organization: planning and action, learning and doing, passion and responsibility, participation and performance.

What is “Create or Die 2”?
Create or Die 2 is a mashup of journalists, technologists, educators, funders, programmers and others interested in journalism entrepreneurship by and for people of color. Our three-day gathering brings together talented, passionate innovators to design, build and pitch their ideas for a journalism innovation — be it technology, content, platform, delivery, audience or other arena.

Our first gathering was held in June 2010 in Detroit. Create or Die 2 builds on that event by highlighting the work of projects initiated in Detroit and looks at structures and policies that can help foster innovation by diverse people for diverse audiences.

Why North Carolina? Why now?
Like many regions of the country, the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina is reinventing itself from a predominantly textile to a creative economy. And with its diverse population, we feel the region is ripe for journalism experimentation.

The area is home to more than eight higher education institutions and high-tech corporations, fertile ground for new ideas to flourish.

In addition, several high-profile tech and media startups are under scrutiny for the lack of minority representation in their staffs and leadership. We want to draw attention to the organizations, systems, policies and structures that are supporting diverse voices with education, funding, mentorship and other support.

What can you do?
We don’t just want participants, we want those invested in reinventing journalism and the new media landscape. Bring your passion, your ideas and your “A game”. We’ll promise you leave energized and in action around what’s important to you.