Projects - Media

PollFinder.ai

United States of America (the)

PollFinder.ai leverages large language models to help newsrooms collect and organize both horserace and issue polls, enabling journalists to write stories that are informed by an up-to-date aggregation of public opinion polls.

Automatic Classifiers for Peace (ACfP)

Europe

The automatic classifiers for peace group is an open-source community of researchers, organisations and individuals that are interested in aiding social media analysis through the automatic classification of social media discourse.

L.A. TACO Media Lab

Los Angeles, CA

USC Annenberg and L.A. TACO have developed a new course, “Bridging the Gap Between L.A. Influencers and Independent Journalists,” which will provide time and space for USC students to contribute to the L.A. TACO Media Lab.

trainings

Vikalpa

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Citizen journalism from Sri Lanka

Maatram

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Journalism for Citizens

Global South Alliance

Groundviews

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Journalism for Citizens

Āhau

Oceania

Āhau is a Whānau Data Platform that helps whānau-based communities (whānau, hapū, Iwi) capture, preserve, and share important information and histories into secure, whānau managed databases and servers. Keep track of whānau whakapapa information, preserve and share cultural records and narratives, own and control whānau data and servers, and build a stronger sense of whānau, community and identity. (whānau is an extended family or community of related families who live together in the same area. Origin: New Zealand)

PEN America

New York, NY

PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world. Join Us

free speech

Media

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

United States of America (the)

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press provides free legal support and legal resources, including training, direct legal representation, and reporting guides, to protect First Amendment freedoms and the newsgathering rights of journalists both nationally and locally in the U.S.

City Bus Manager

Germany (Deutschland)

Build your own bus depot from scratch and create your personal bus routes in City Bus Manager.

CrossOver

Finland (Suomi)

Tracking the role of algorithms on the spread of disinformation

SynthID

A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI

Google

Poynter Journalism Prizes

10 prizes honor best in U.S. journalism, including accountability journalism and innovation in journalism

Adobe Content Authenticity Beta

San Jose, California, USA

Apply secure metadata with information about yourself and your content preferences, directly to your files with Content Credentials.

The Best Amendment

It’s an unofficial NRA game that involves tactical shooting and four dimensional thinking.

gun safety

Papers, Please

“The concept was inspired by frequent trips through airport immigration and the realization that inspecting documents in a game setting might be fun"

immigration

Anti-SLAPP

Poland (Polska)

*SLAPP - Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation is a legal action taken to block public participation, including journalists and activists, in public debate. Their goal is to silence criticism of the actions of government or large corporations.

Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN)

Washington, DC

GIJN is an international association that supports the work of investigative journalists worldwide.

Centre For Journalism Innovation & Development (CJID)

Abuja, Nigeria

We break information barriers and strengthen African democracies through research and media innovation

Thomson Reuters Labs

Toronto

Working with external partners, Thomson Reuters Labs™ are active members of regional innovation ecosystems, delivering world-class solutions for customers.

ProPublica wanted to find more sources in the federal government. So it brought a truck.

Washington, DC

Nieman Journalism Lab covered ProPublica's brilliant approach to getting government sources: parking one of those billboard trucks with an ad for their secure Signal number outside of government offices in DC as terminated employees left the building.

CEE. AI Lab

Central and Eastern Europe

Game-changing program for newsrooms with the tools and knowledge to harness AI for smarter, more efficient journalism.

trainings

TV Kitchen

Pennsylvania

TV Kitchen is an open source community making it easy to create, collect, and share tools to understand the impact of media. LEARN MORE READ THE DOCS

Lenfest Institute Communities of Practice

The Lenfest Institute is home to communities of practice serving various types of journalism professionals and organizations.

How news organizations are creating trust-based AI policies

No matter if your newsroom has an established AI policy or if you are just getting started, here are 5 key challenges to consider and 5 practical recommendations for establishing a trust-based AI policy based on insights from the publishers participating in the AI Collaborative and Fellowship

guides

Слідство.Інфо (Slidstvo.Info)

Ukraine (Ukrayina)

Award-winning independent investigative news agency in Ukraine

Ukraine

Data Cameroon

Cameroon (Cameroon, Cameroun)

DataCameroon est un site d’information généraliste, spécialisé dans le Data journalisme et le journalisme d’investigation.

The 74

United States of America (the)

The 74 is a nonprofit news organization covering America’s education system from early childhood through college and career.

Quality education

Make It Fair campaign

London

The UK news industry is calling on the government to ensure creatives are rewarded properly so as to ensure a sustainable future for AI and the creative industries.

Stop AI theft

Bridging Dictionary

MIT Media Lab

[A] dynamic prototype from MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication that identifies how words common in American political discourse are used differently across the political divide

Vocem

We are a new social enterprise developing tools to strengthen place-based awareness and engagement.

Newsweek 'Trustworthy' poll

Newsweek has added a "Is this article trustworthy?" poll below its articles

Debunker Assistant

Turin, Italy

Debunker-Assistant is your go-to tool for debunking fake news online.

DATUM STIFTUNG für Journalismus und Demokratie

Austria (Österreich)

Die DATUM STIFTUNG für Journalismus und Demokratie leistet ganz konkrete und zielgerichtete Beiträge, um Qualität und Unabhängigkeit des Journalismus und damit seine Abwehrkräfte gegenüber autoritären Tendenzen zu stärken und verfolgt dabei eine systemische Herangehensweise.

Google Daily Listen

"Google can turn your Discover feed into an AI-generated podcast" - The Verge

Google

Naskvoz

Russian Federation (the)

"Naskvoz" (meaning "seeing through" in Russian), analyzes news texts for emotional manipulation techniques and propaganda markers.

Telegram

Dokopalsya!

Russian Federation (the)

Dokopalsya! (which playfully means "got to the bottom of it" in Russian), leverages large language models to serve as a rapid fact-checking assistant in Russian. When users share claims or news snippets, the bot identifies key assertions and checks them against reliable sources, providing evidence-based verification with links to authoritative references.

Telegram

PGP Monitoring Lab

New York City

PGP’s Monitoring Lab employs several commercially available media monitoring systems that collect and organize publicly available information sources.

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.

Open Politics Project

Berlin

The mission is to create an open-source data science and AI toolkit to analyse, summarise, and visualise political information.

Austin Monitor

Austin, TX

The Austin Monitor is the only nonpartisan local daily news source that exclusively covers the important issues and key decisions at the intersection between the local government and the community. Its mission is to create shared prosperity through a more informed and engaged community.

local

Tech Policy Press

A nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy.

Detect Fakes

Chicago, IL

See for yourself how accurately you can identify AI-generated images

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.