J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism announced the ten winners of its New Voices awards. These winners will receive $12,000 grants to launch innovative local media ventures across the country.

The one winner from New York City was Loisaida Speaks, from the Lower East Side Girls Club. The organization will use funding to train 32 young women to produce weekly podcasts on community news and issues. In the future, these podcasters will build a network of teen podcast correspondents to cover local issues and events.

For more on why podcasting has the potential to change the market reality for traditonal radio broadcasters, check out Buzz Machine's posting on the new all-podcasting radio station (YOURadio) launched by Infinity Broadcasting:

"YOURadio is big news and good news for a few reasons... First, it is big media recognizing that it's time to listen -- and do more than listen: Let the people speak. It is big media recognizing the value of citizens' media.

Second, it is an admission that the old, one-size-fits-all, top-down, one-way models of programming are broken and the audience can do it better.

Third, it an admission that the old business models are soon to break and that the people can provide more talent for less than the old talent could."