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Temple Journalism Department's local news site part of national higher ed trend

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Journalism departments around the country are starting to give their students new news opportunities. More than beefing up course catalogs with multimedia and convergence offerings, journalism schools and departments are becoming incubators for entrepreneurial news startups — news websites that are populated with student content. One such site: Temple's required capstone that has some 180 students covering 30 neighborhoods over the course of an academic year for PhiladelphiaNeighborhoods.com.