Are you a woman who has an original idea to create a new Web site, mobile news service or other entrepreneurial initiative that offers interactive opportunities to engage, inspire and inform a particular community?

If so, the The McCormick New Media Women Entrepreneurs program may have a cool $10,000 for you. They're offering three such grants to fund women-led projects that will "rock the world of journalism."

Your venture can be a solo idea or team project, as long as it's a startup, spearheaded by women, launching within 10 months, U.S.-based, and has journalistic value. Individuals, businesses, and non-profits are all eligible to apply.

Past winning projects include:

Echo, a system of public storytelling installations in Atlanta.
Latina Voices, a news site for and by Latinas. 
Northwest Navy News, a networking site for the Puget Sound military community.

Apply Now. The application deadline is: March 31, 2009.

For more information visit: www.newmediawomen.org

The broadcaster, author, advocate, philanthropist and host of the award-winning PBS late-night talk show gives his perspective on the news and issues that are shaping American life today. Interviewed by Matt Bai.

Date: Saturday, Jan 10, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Location: The Times Center
242 West 41st Street bet. 7th and 8th Avenues, NYC
Directions: Subway A, C, E, 1, 2, 3, 7, S to 42nd St-Times Square
Tickets: $30.00   
For more info visit: www.artsandleisureweek.com

The NAHJ has announced a Call For Sessions for their 27th annual Convention and Media & Career Expo, scheduled for June 24-27, 2009 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

They are in need of ideas and suggestions to ensure a strong and informative conference. Let them know what issues or training you'd like to see at NAHJ's 2009 Convention online, via: www.opportunities.nahj.org   or by visiting www.nahj.org.

The programming committee will review and determine the accepted workshops. Please note that the deadline for submissions is December 12, 2008.

This is your chance to help build an informative, relevant, productive and fun convention. Want a post-election analysis of how the media covered the Latino vote? A look at mainstream and independent coverage of U.S. relations with Latin America and the Caribbean? A workshop on how to re-invent yourself in this age of changing journalism? This is your chance to make it happen.

NAHJ also plans to spend a considerable amount of convention time on training, particularly multimedia skills and the latest in new media tools. Let us know what you need to learn - now.

For more info visit: www.nahj.org

Truly stylish women all have one thing in common, they have their own unique look. When we style the Editor’s Picks pages in the office, we can always tell whose page it is based on the 10 pieces that they have selected.  Most super stylish women have one piece that sums up their style" (i.e., Zanna and her slouchy trousers, Irina Lazareanu and her leather jacket). This fashion feature will highlight a style icon's look with quotes about how she builds her wardrobe around this signature piece over and over again to create her signature style.

For more info contact: zglassner@hearst.com

NBC Universal's 3rd Annual Comedy Short Cuts Film Festival is looking for your funny and entertaining short films! The unique showcase of short, comedic films and videos produced with a culturally diverse production team, cast or theme, will once again crown a winning filmmaker, who will be given the chance to pitch to NBC comedy development and meet with NBC Universal's top network, studio, cable, and film executives.

To Enter: Click Here

For Submission Rules & Entering Procedures: Click Here

With gas at an all-time high, the housing market is in the crapper and airlines jerking customers left & right, Wired Magazine is doing the right thing by offering strapped consumers a quality informational product at a discount. Here's how it works: Hit this link: www.discountmags.com and upon checkout enter the code FD-WIRED. According to www.slickdeals.net, the coupons do stack and the offer is good for multiple years.

[Gizmodo via Discount Mags via Slickdeals and BBGadgets]

Juleyka Lantigua, former managing editor of GIANT, XXL, Urban Latino and Honey magazines, is thrilled to be part of the República Update. She earned a Master of Science in Journalism from Boston University and a B.A. from Skidmore College in1996. While researching immigration policy as a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, she helped launch a monthly newspaper (Prensa del Caribe) and a quarterly magazine (En Dialógo). She has been a nationally syndicated columnist with The Progressive magazine's Media Project for nine years. Her writing has appeared in U.S. papers including The Houston Chronicle, The Miami Herald, and The L.A. Times as well as in newspapers and magazines in Spain, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. In February 2001, the New York Daily News selected her as one of the "Ten Latinos Changing the Face of New York." A graduate of the Radcliffe Publishing Course (now the Columbia Publishing Course), she guest edited, and contributed an essay to, the summer 2001-and an abridged Spanish-edition of the Nieman Reports for Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism. One of her essays, "Man of the House," is included in Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism, an anthology published in August 2002 by Seal Press. "My Ciguapa," a short story, is included in the young adult anthology Once Upon a Cuento (Seal Press, 2003). "That Latino Show," an essay published in The Progressive magazine has been anthologized in The Simon and Schuster Short Prose Reader, 4th and 5th Editions (Simon & Schuster, 2005, 2008). Lantigua has served on the faculty of the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center, where she taught freelance writing for magazines and newspapers.

Lantigua's "Ink Blast" column for the República Update will touch on current news, pop culture trends, political commentary, and things that generally make her go, "Huh?"

For more more info visit: www.juleykalantigua.com

Isiah Carey Of Fox 26 in Houston goes from proper to hood in a matter of seconds after a bug flies in his mouth.

This one falls under the "too entertaining not to post" category. Here's a clip (circa 1989-1995) of Billy O losing his mind back in the day while on the set of Inside Edition. It may not last long on Youtube so enjoy it while you can.

If you're a blogger, aspiring blogger, writer or are just into politics, this is a great opportunity to catch one of the most successful in the blogosphere for free at the New School in New York City as she speaks on The Road to 2008: Presidential Politics Today.

Date: 04.17.08 | 6-8PM
Location: Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12 St.
Admission: Is free, but you must reserve a seat.

Ariana Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, co-host of Left, Right & Center, and author of eleven books including the forthcoming Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe

To RSVP, visit: www.rsvpmn.com
Contact Information: Milanoevents@newschool.edu