Continuing the trend in community foundation support for community media, the Knight Foundation announced yesterday $2.26 million in matching grants for news and information projects.  The 2011 Knight Community Information Challenge Winners winners are listed at the Knight Blog. One of the recipient’s include Long Beach Community Foundation to support the following project, entitled “Rethinking Public Broadcasting in Long Beach”

Summary: In returning public access television to Long Beach, this project will create hyper-local, multilingual programming on a variety of platforms. Programming, some contributed by residents reporting from a network of neighborhood studios, will be presented in English, Khmer and Spanish. A nightly program will showcase professional and citizen-created content, aiming to get more people engaged in local issues. In addition, an outreach and training program will encourage people of all ethnicities and age groups to participate.”