Civic Tech Field Guide
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Journalism, storytelling, and other forms of interactive media are critical to civic engagement in democracies. Here we track those media and journalism tech projects that directly relate to citizens working to shift power in society.
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The New York Times's interactive on what belongs in the trash and what gets recycled
A participant-led conference from OpenNews for journalists who want to transform their work, their organizations, and their communities.
How The New York Times Thinks About Your Privacy
New York Times Building, 8th Avenue, New York, NY, USAA guide to the news company's data usage
Perugia Declaration for Ukraine
Perugia, ItalyThe International Journalism Festival and members and partners of the Global Forum for Media Development call for increased support of independent media and journalists in Ukraine.
Missing Them
New York City, NY, USAThe City's crowdsourced, data-driven obituaries for New Yorkers who have died from COVID-19
Community Notes (formerly Birdwatch)
San FranciscoTwitter's community-based approach to misinformation
Investigating disinformation campaigns by Russia during its invasion of Ukraine
A short guide to help keep journalists and their sources safe
Our goal is to provide multiple independent data sources allowing everyone to reach their own conclusions on what will happen in the 2020 elections.
(Mis)informed
St. Petersburg, Florida, USAThe International Fact-Checking Network is releasing a limited-run podcast about fact-checking and fake news.
ActionSprout
ActionSprout, Commercial Street, Bellingham, WA, USAActionSprout makes it easy to find curated content, schedule posts, manage Facebook ads, and create donations and petitions to grow your following!
The Reporters’ Lab
Duke University, Durham, NC, USAThe Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics.
Fundación Gabo de Periodismo
Centro, calle San Juan de Dios #3-121 Cartagena de Indias, ColombiaFomentar ciudadanos activos y mejor informados mediante la formación y estímulo a los periodistas, y la promoción del uso ético y creativo del poder de contar y compartir historias, inspirados en el legado de Gabriel García Márquez y su método de taller.
Doublethink Labs
Taipei City, TaiwanDoublethink Lab was founded in 2019 to strengthen democracy through enhancing digital defenses. Our work focuses on researching malign Chinese influence operations and disinformation campaigns and their impacts via the digital tools and methodologies we have developed.
BuzzFeed News
New York City, NY, USABuzzFeed News has breaking stories and original reporting on politics, world news, social media, viral trends, health, science, technology, entertainment, and LGBTQ issues.
Global Voices
Stichting Global Voices, Kingsfodweg 151, 1043GR Amsterdam, The NetherlandsGlobal Voices is an international, multilingual community of writers, translators, academics, and digital rights activists.
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
1201 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington DCThe Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) is dedicated to improving U.S. efforts to promote independent media in developing countries around the world.
Journalism and Media Lab (jamlab) at Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct
Johannesburg, South AfricaJamlab aims to support more and better innovation in journalism and media in Africa.
Meedan
San FranciscoMeedan is a team of designers, technologists and journalists crafting software and devising initiatives for newsrooms, NGOs and academic institutions.
Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University
Columbia University, New York, NY, USALed by director Emily Bell since our founding in 2010, our team of researchers examines digital journalism’s industry-wide economic trends, its cultural shifts, and its relationship with the broader, constantly changing world of technology. Operating as an institute within Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, the center provides journalists with the skills and knowledge to lead the future of digital journalism and serves as a research and development center for the profession as a whole.
New York Times
New York Times Building, 8th Avenue, New York, NY, USALive news, investigations, opinion, photos and video by the journalists of The New York Times from more than 150 countries around the world.
By developing and equipping a global network of investigative journalists and publishing their stories, OCCRP exposes crime and corruption so the public can hold power to account.
Dataphyte
Abuja, NigeriaDataphyte is a media research and data analytics organisation with the mission to deploy data tools and technology for the socio-economic development of Nigeria.
Medill Subscriber Engagement Index
Northwestern University, Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, USANorthwestern University has launched the Medill Subscriber Engagement Index, a tool that allows local news organizations to see what content encourages subscribers to stick around and lets publishers benchmark their performance against outlets in comparable markets.
J++
StockholmJ++ is an international team of data journalism specialists, with offices in Stockholm and Porto. The team integrates experts in research, data analysis, data-driven storytelling, newsroom programming and full-stack design.
The Narrative Observatory
New York CityWith data infrastructure purpose-built to deliver audience-based insights, narrative and network analysis, and empirical validation of cultural strategy and content, we help strategists and creative practitioners identify story opportunities and challenges across a range of social issues.
211CHECK
Juba211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.
Outride.rs is a website delivering a range of international journalism.
Good journalism is one of the hallmarks of civilized society
The Committee to Protect Journalists promotes press freedom worldwide by defending the rights of journalists to report news without fear.
Reporters without Borders or Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) is an international organisation that protects freedom of the press worldwide by protecting the safety and security of journalists operating in threatening regimes.
Chequeado
ArgentinaChequeado is a non-profit, non-partisan independent media organisation and Latin America's first fact-checking site.
Correctiv
EssenCorrectiv is a German non-profit newsroom that investigates injustices and abuses of power, and runs educational programs on journalism and media literacy.
The award-winning Center for Public Integrity is one of the oldest and largest non-profit news organisations in the United States.
A game that puts you in the mindset of propagandists and agents promoting fake news, propaganda and hate-speech to help the user understand how fake news is made and promoted
Wilson Center Commons Lab: “In 2011, residents of Macon, Georgia received over $65,000 in free local currency—with a catch."
Center for an Informed Public
The Information School, Mary Gates Hall, Northeast Grant Lane, Seattle, Washington, USATo resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.
SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can use to securely accept documents from and communicate with anonymous sources.
Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.
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