Spotlighting individuals making innovative use of media to foster participatory democracy is the goal of the Media Giraffe Project, hosted by the journalism faculty at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and funded by private donations.

Begun March 15, 2005, the year-long research effort seeks, identifies and profiles individuals "sticking their necks out" using media to achieve more citizen involvement and accountability in government.

Project researchers will chronicle what's working at the local and national level via a website, "how-to" video, a book and training.

The project is being launched with the collaboration of The Giraffe Hero Project. Enter the Media Giraffe Project

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The Media Giraffe Blog is now available for posting Giraffe "sightings."

For more information on the project, or to nominate media "giraffes" worthy of profiling, please contact: