Lincoln City

My name is Phil Tenser and I will be traveling to Lincoln City this summer with my Fellowship partner Andrew Burton. We are Multimedia Fellows with a program called News for the 21st Century, or News21 . The 8-university program is sponsored by the Knight and Carnegie Foundations and tasks us with the goal of traveling the country and creating exciting new multimedia journalism.

Our school, Syracuse University, is taking part in News21 for the first time and has chosen the topic, Teens and Technology. To do this we’ve partnered with Dante Chinni and the Patchwork Nation program which features Lincoln City as one representative of many others in the nation.

We are planning to visit sometime in late May and early June and will likely be spending more than a week in your area to take in the sights, get to know your residents, and find some interesting stories about youth and technology. Some of the story ideas we have been researching include:

1. The dangers that the Internet can pose to young people and the ways that the government or public can protect them.
2. Youths who use technology to connect, and form groups.
3. Technology used in libraries or classrooms as a learning tool.
4. Your recent library renovations and any new technology you’ve added to them.