McLean, VA (March 6, 2012)- UNITY Journalists of Color, Inc.’s New U: News Entrepreneurs Working through UNITY project announced today that its three 2011-2012 seed grant winners have been selected based on two-thirds-weighted judges vote combined with a one-third crowd-sourced peer vote.

“Once again, we felt like using crowd-sourcing as part of our decision process was the fairest way to choose a winner,” said Alli Joseph, program co-director.

The winners from participating organizations or unaffiliated groups are Cynthia Liu (AAJA, K12 News Network) with 57.2%, Jason Frazer (Unaffiliated, Empowerment Network, 26.1%) and Ashley Cisneros with 56.2% (NAHJ, Ashley Cisneros, Inc.)