Projects - Journalism

Nieman Lab Predictions for Journalism, 2025.

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. At the end of a trying 2024, here’s what they had to say.

Nieman Lab

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

The Nieman Journalism Lab is an attempt to help journalism figure out its future in an Internet age.

[Legal] Reporters Database

Oakland, California

Our Reporters Database is a Python library or JSON file that provides structured information about nearly every American legal reporter.

How The New York Times Incorporates Editorial Judgement in Algorithms to Curate Home Screen Content

New York Times Building, 8th Avenue, New York, NY, USA

Election SOS

Chicago, IL

Election SOS offers training & resources for journalists, connecting them to best practices, resources and support around election coverage.

Media Viability Accelerator

Internews Network, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

Join a free web-based platform that supports media to compete more effectively for audiences and revenues by learning from the performance of peers globally and participating in a marketplace of ideas.

The Midwest Newsroom

Iowa

The Midwest Newsroom is a partnership among Iowa Public Radio, KCUR in Kansas City, Nebraska Public Media News, St. Louis Public Radio and NPR.

New York Focus

New York, USA

New York Focus is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom covering state and local politics in the Empire State. We aim to make government more transparent by publishing in-depth journalism that explains how the state really works.

Investigative Reporting Lab (IRL) Macedonia

North Macedonia (Severna Makedonija)

The Investigative Reporting Laboratory (IRL) is a non-profit media organization whose reporting focuses on corruption, crime and good governance.

OpenGovLoc

Cameroon (Cameroon, Cameroun)

OpenGovLoc, a digital transformation project, is a scaling-up operation in 4 priority municipalities and the involvement of 20 other municipalities in the use of digital technology to promote accountability and local participation led by young people.

GCA Cybersecurity Toolkit for Journalists

United States of America (the)

Free and effective tools you can use right now to take action to improve the cybersecurity and integrity of your newsroom.

Democracy Forward

Microsoft's program to "preserve, protect, and advance the fundamentals of democracy by safeguarding open and secure democratic processes, promoting a healthy information ecosystem, and advocating for corporate civic responsibility."

Microsoft

Google News Initiative

The Google News Initiative works with publishers and journalists to fight misinformation, share resources and build a diverse and innovative news ecosystem.

Google

Pre-launch Startups Lab

The Google News Initiative Pre-launch Lab is a program supporting early stage entrepreneurs in journalism.

ADISI - CAMEROUN

Cameroon (Cameroon, Cameroun)

ADISI-Cameroun est une organisation de la société civile qui a pour cœur de métier l’information et la gouvernance de celle-ci.

gotham-grabber

gotham-grabber is a set of scripts written to archive journalism published on a set of now-defunct news sites

Global Project Oasis

Project Oasis is a research effort to map independent digital media organizations, news creators and publishers-in-exile across 68 countries.

Knight Election Hub

United States of America (the)

The Knight Election Hub is a collection of curated products and services that will help you cover the election better than you thought possible.

Fediverse bylines

Today we’re launching a new feature that will highlight writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse when their articles are being shared.

Mastodon

Computation + Journalism Symposium

Newsbank

Providing easy access to the world's largest repository of reliable information

Exiled Media Toolkit

Washington, DC

Our Exiled Media Toolkit, produced in partnership with the Network of Exiled Media Outlets (NEMO), brings resources to journalists and outlets established or preparing to be in exile, as they report on communities and events in their home countries.

SoJo Europe

Europe

This grant programme aims to respond to the need for media organisations across Europe to pursue different approaches to increase reader trust, audience share, and revenue by creating a cross-European solutions journalism knowledge hub and encouraging systemic cooperation between professional news media organisations.

Undo The Firewall

Bring Independent News to Russians (by adding code to your website to display news that Russian authorities cannot block)

Inside The Newsroom

Inside The Newsroom is home to the largest curated journalism jobs board and calendar in the world.

Inside the Global Fight for Press Freedom

Through powerful personal narratives and comprehensive data, Global Press Journal shares the untold stories of 11 courageous, local journalists and activists across the globe.

Sourcebase Inquiry

United States of America (the)

sourcebase.ai is an AI platform designed for journalists, researchers, and professionals who need to make sense of massive amounts of source material.

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CalMatters

Sacramento, California, USA

Nonprofit newsroom covering the state of California

News Ambassadors

Florida

What might it sound like if a reporter in rural Missouri partnered with a reporter in New York City to together explore contentious issues and uplift common ground?

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COA Beat Assistant

Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines

Custom GPT tool to help journalists in the Philippines to parse long government audit reports for anomalies

Hack The Press

London

Hack The Press is a movement. We're not satisfied by the current situation of owned media, and we've taken Michael Jackson's song "Man In The Mirror" to heart.

The Tiny News Collective

California

Our mission is to support the voices historically excluded from media and media ownership.

ProPublica

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY

219 W 40th St

At the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, change is in our DNA.

Local Independent Online News (LION)

United States of America (the)

Creating and supporting independent news entrepreneurs

Legitimate

Legitimate provides journalists and publishers with the latest [AI] tools to enhance their work while helping audiences build trust and have context in the content they consume.

Turning Wikimedia into a news-site credibility tool

United States of America (the)

My new WikiCred project is aimed at making Wikidata/Wikipedia a more effective indicator of news-site credibility.

Wikipedia

AI Accountability Network

Washington, DC

Pulitzer Center: Working with journalists and newsrooms that represent the diversity of the communities affected by AI technologies, the Network seeks to address the knowledge imbalance on artificial intelligence that exists in the journalism industry and to create a multidisciplinary and collaborative ecosystem that enables journalists to report on this fast-evolving topic with skill, nuance, and impact.

AI Journalism Lab

CUNY Graduate Center

This 3-month hybrid, tuition-free and highly participatory program invites journalists to explore generative AI through theory and practice, and add meaningfully to the conversation.

Collaborate

Collaborate is an open-source tool that newsrooms can use to enable multiple reporters to share a dataset.

Bureau Local

London

A collaborative, investigative network revealing stories that matter to communities across the UK

American Journalism Project

Washington, DC

We are a venture philanthropy investing in and building digital nonprofit newsrooms that are governed by, are sustained by, and look like the public they serve.

StraightLines by Lucid Lens

San Francisco

Here we introduce StraightLines, a proof-of-concept tool developed by AOI’s Lucid Lens team, that automatically rewrites news headlines to reflect the content of articles in a more accurate, less sensational way.

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OpenAI Partnership with American Journalism Project to support local news

United States of America (the)

A new $5+ million partnership aims to explore ways the development of artificial intelligence (AI) can support a thriving, innovative local news field, and ensure local news organizations shape the future of this emerging technology.