J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism has moved to American University's School of Communication, where it will expand its operations with the help of a $2.4 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to American University.

J-Lab helps journalists and citizens use digital technologies to develop new ways of participating in public life. J-Lab provides award and seed money to professional journalists, citizens, and new media entrepreneurs for innovations in journalism and community news startups; builds e-learning Web sites for interactive and citizen journalism; and engages in training and research.

At its new home, J-Lab will use the Knight grant to:

• Renew the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism.
• Fund 16 additional New Voices citizen-media projects.
• Create eight to 10 Knight Citizen News Network learning modules and update J-Learning, J-Lab, and J-New Voices Web sites.
• Launch five Networked Community News pilot projects, teaming five newspapers with citizen media outlets in each of their communities.
• Build a Community Media Toolkit to help foundations fund, vet, support, and measure local media projects.
• Ramp up knowledge sharing with a Re-imagining Journalism project.

For more information, visit J-Lab.org.