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Journalism 1 • Spring 2014
Dan Kennedy

2. Bridgewater State University’s journalism
department has accepted a $200,000 grant to
be used for starting a student-run newspaper
covering the underprivileged neighborhoods of
Brockton.
The grant comes from the John S. and James
L. Knight Foundation, a non-profit organization
dedicated to supporting “transformational ideas
that promote quality journalism, advance media
innovation, engage communities and foster the
arts,” according to a mission statement from
their website.

3. On February 11, Joseph Pierce, chairman of
the Journalism department at Bridgewater State
University, announced that the department
received a $200,000 grant to start a nonprofit
community news source in Brockton.
The grant, gifted from the John S. and James
L. Knight Foundation, will span three years and
aims to provide news coverage of Brockton’s
underserved neighborhoods. “The grant
specifies that we focus on stories that people in
the community want us to cover,” said Pierce.

4. Bridgewater State University’s journalism
department has graciously received a grant from
the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in order
to bring better news coverage to the city of
Brockton. Bridgewater State held a press
conference on Tuesday in which he unveiled the
university’s journalistic venture.
“The purpose of the grant is to cover Brockton’s
unrepresented neighborhoods,” said Joseph Pierce,
chairman of the journalism department at
Bridgewater State. “Brockton only appears in the
media when there’s a murder or a big drug bust.
The majority of people in Brockton are hardworking, law abiding citizens.”

5. The people of Brockton, Massachusetts may
be getting a voice in the news soon.
Joseph Pierce, Chairman of the Journalism
Department at Bridgewater State University,
recently announced a grant that would fund a
non-profit and student-driven news organization
in Brockton. The $200,000 grant, given by the
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, will be
used to cover the news of under-served
neighborhoods of Brockton.

6. The Brockton area will soon have a new voice.
Joseph Pierce, Chairman of the Journalism
Department at Bridgewater State University,
announced at a press conference on Tuesday that
the school had just received a $200,000 grant. The
money, given by the John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation, is to be used to start a local student
online news website, Brockton Matters.
“Last year we conducted a public meeting with
citizens of Brockton,” said Pierce, “and they told us
that their city isn’t covered unless it’s a crime or
drug bust.”

7. The Brockton area will soon have a new voice.
Joseph Pierce, Chairman of the Journalism
Department at Bridgewater State University,
announced at a press conference on Tuesday that
the school had just received a $200,000 grant. The
money, given by the John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation, is to be used to start a local student
online news website, Brockton Matters.
“Last year we conducted a public meeting with
citizens of Brockton,” said Pierce, “and they told us
that their city isn’t covered unless it’s a crime or
drug bust.”

8. The journalism department at Bridgewater
State University will create a communityfocused news website after receiving a $200,000
grant from the John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation.
The three-year grant will cover the funds to
pay an editor’s salary, create the website as well
as other miscellaneous expenses, according to
Joseph Pierce, chairman of the university’s
journalism department, who announced the
news at a press conference yesterday evening.

9. Bridgewater State University’s Journalism
program received a grant to help fund and serve the
larger population of the Brocton community.
Joseph Pierce, chairman of the Journalism
Department at Bridgewater State University
announced that the department has been given
$200,000, three-year grant, from the non-profit
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The grant
will help build and pay for an editor for the website
“broctonmatters.org.” This website will be used to
promote the community news of Brocton and their
underserved African American and Latino
communities.

10. $2000 grant for Undeserved Neighborhoods
for City of Brockton.
Joseph Pierce, Chairman of the school of
Journalism at Bridgewater State University made
the announcement in a news conference held at
the Journalism department.
It is a much-appreciated grant from “The
John S and James L Knight Foundation,” who has
approved the grant for the Non-Profit
community.

11. Bridgewater State University recently became a
recipient of a $200,000 grant, courtesy of the John
S. and James L. Knight Foundation, announced
chairman of the Journalism Department Joseph
Pierce yesterday.
The grant will go towards a new non-profit news
organization of the town of Brockton. The site,
Brocktonmatters.org, will allow readers to get a
clearer picture of their town that has been going
unnoticed.
“A vast majority of people who live in Brockton
are hard-working, law abiding citizens,” said Pierce
on the matter.

12. Neighborhoods of Brockton, Mass. deserve
more representation in the news, many
residents say. Thanks to a recent grant, more
representation is on its way.
Joseph Pierce, chairman of Bridgewater State
University’s journalism department, spoke at a
news conference on Tuesday, Feb. 11. The
conference, held in the journalism department
of the university, focused on a three-year project
to increase news coverage of the “underserved
neighborhoods” of Brockton.

13. A $200,000 grant has been given to the
journalism department at Bridgewater State
University. The John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation provided the grant in hopes of creating
a more well-rounded news outlet that would deal
with issues other than crime and murder.
In a news conference on Tuesday, Joseph
Pierce, the chairman of the university’s journalism
department, went into detail about the grant. He
discussed the need that underserved
neighborhoods such as Brockton have for a betterequipped news staff.

14. Brockton will have a new voice in the coming
year. Bridgewater State University’s journalism
department has received a $200,000 grant to
start Brockton Matters, a nonprofit community
news service.
Working alongside Brockton Enterprise
reporters, Bridgewater State students will focus
on relevant issues in the Brockton community
including public schools, public housing, and
community policing. Special attention will be
given to underserved black and Latino
neighborhoods.

15. Yesterday at noon Joseph Pierce chairman of
the journalism department at Bridgewater
University announced a grant of $200,000 from
the John S and James L Knight Foundation. The
grant was founded to the journalism
department of Bridgewater State University in
Massachusetts.
The purpose of the grant is to create an
online website to cover the news on the city of
Brockton. The website is to be linked
brocktonmatters.org and is expected to be up
and running after six months.

16. The Bridgewater State University Journalism
department has been given a grant of $200,000
to put toward the creation of a non-profit
community service project, said Journalism
department Chairman Joseph Pierce today.
The three year grant was given by the John S.
& James L. Knight Foundation and will be used
to hire an editor to run the website
Brocktonmatters.org, which will host articles
written for the project. “We hope to have it up
and running in about six months,” said Pierce.

17. Students at Bridgewater State University will
soon be joining forces with reporters from
Brockton, MA to provide news tailored to the needs
of the city’s underserved communities. Funded by a
grant, BrocktonMatters.org will soon be launched
to cover topics that the local media usually
overlooks.
Pierce announced at a press conference that the
department received a $200,000 grant from the
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to start a
non-profit community news source. This will be a
partnership between the Brockton Enterprise, a
daily newspaper that serves the city of Brockton
and its surrounding areas, and the Journalism
Department at Bridgewater State.

18. The Chairman of the Journalism Department
at Bridgewater State University, Joseph
Pierce, announced yesterday that they would
receive at 3-year $200,000 grant from the John
S. and James L. Knight Foundation to “start a
nonprofit community news source in Brockton.”
Brockton Matters, as it will be called, will look
to hire an editor to look over about half-a-dozen
Bridgewater State journalism students to “work
along reporters from the Brockton Enterprise,”
said Pierce.

19. Joseph Pierce, the chairman of the Bridgewater
State University school of journalism, held a press
conference on Tuesday announcing the creation of
a new non-profit community news outlet centering
on the working class city of Brockton. The
outlet, which will be featured online and in print, is
being funded by a $200,000 grant given by the John
S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The goal of the outlet, called “Brockton Matters,”
is to report on the often under-reported goings-on
in the Brockton area. As opposed to “murders and
drug busts”, Pierce says both the site and the print
editions of “Brockton Matters” will cover issues like
“public schools, public housing and community
policing.”