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Reporter is an iPhone app for understanding the things you care about. With a few randomly timed surveys each day, Reporter can illuminate aspects of your life that might be otherwise unmeasurable.
Report for America is a national service program that places emerging journalists into local newsrooms across the country to report on under-covered issues.
Report for the World matches local newsrooms with talented emerging journalists to report on under-covered issues around the globe.
Report: RT and Sputnik's Role in Russia's Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem - United States Department of State
Russian Federation (the)US State Department report on state-funded misinformation
Report: AI Governance in Southeast Asia
Thailand (Prathet Thai)In partnership with researcher Dr Jun-E Tan, EngageMedia has produced research that aims to provide an understanding of AI and its governance from the perspective of civil society in Southeast Asia.
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.
Reported.ly wrapped up in August 2016 but during its brief yet impactful run, its international team of journalists surfaced breaking news and reported on human rights and social justice issues through the expansive lens of social media.
Vote Report India
India (Bhārat)Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election
PRL’s Path to 2024 report series is a new monthly chronicle covering partisan attitudes of Americans in the lead-up to the November 2024 presidential election. Each month, we focus on a different salient issue affecting voters and analyze public attitudes from our weekly public opinion poll.
Democracy Reporting International (DRI) strengthens democracy by shaping the institutions that make it sustainable.
Tech company signatories of the voluntary EU Code of Practice on Disinformation report relevant data on disinformation on their platforms
State of AI Report 2023
LondonRelevant section: Politics: Regulation of AI, its economic implications and the evolving geopolitics of AI.
State Court Report
New York University"[A] nonpartisan source for news, resources, and commentary focused on state courts and state constitutional development. It’s the first and only website dedicated to covering state constitutional cases and trends in high courts across the 50 states."
This [Canadian] report includes the following: Importance of ethics in AI and government, Understanding the impacts of AI on society, Balancing AI-driven efficiency with privacy and security concerns, and Cyber-security and digital trust.
Solutions Journalism: New ways of elevating your reporting and engaging audiences
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA2023 MOOC organized by Knight
This library of final reports from grant funded projects in the deep tech and research space is a great place to find relevant information without having to write it all yourself!
Every year, we track innovations and changes across the political tech space, recognizing the need to capture the developments in this fast-changing industry. This report focuses on the historic 2022 midterm cycle.
All Tech Is Human’s Tech & Democracy report addresses key issues and best practices in the field, and highlights a diverse range of individuals working in the field (across civil society, government, industry, academia, and entrepreneurship).
Consumer Reports Share My Story
New York, USAA platform for CR members to share their stories on a given topic, like medical bills
Institute for Nonprofit News Index Annual Report
Beverly HillsThe Index is the most comprehensive study of the state of nonprofit news.
Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI) is an organization focused on developing and promoting various forms of investigative journalism through collaboration with journalists, activists, and citizens in Italy and abroad.
The CR Digital Lab offers paid, non-resident fellowships to study the effects of connected products and services. Fellows will undertake research to increase transparency and advance consumers’ interests in the marketplace—devising new testing frameworks, tools, and procedures to evaluate values such as privacy, security, and fairness. Fellows will have the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse community of technologists, leverage CR’s physical labs and testing infrastructure, and communicate findings to manufacturers, policymakers, and the public. Applications for our 2020 non-resident fellowships are now closed. We appreciate your interest and hope that you will consider applying next year when we reopen applications for the 2021 season.
A set of recommendations for infrastructure improvements based on a series of interviews with and stories collected from local election officials
Government Apps Special Report
Brazil (Brasil)In this project, we studied 13 government mobile apps – eight from the federal public administration and five from the state of São Paulo – that we believed most affect Brazilian citizens on a daily basis for their relation to services that are especially relevant to our day-to-day life and to the government-citizen relationship.
ANCIR partners with investigative newsrooms to produce data-driven investigative reports using social network analysis, entity analysis and open source intelligence.
Lighthouse Reports
UtrechtPioneering Collaborative Journalism
A report analyzing online spaces being weaponized to exclude women leaders and undermine the role of women in public life. It investigates gendered disinformation on Poland and the Philippines through Twitter data analyses.
A report analyzing how gendered, online harassment of female journalists translates in the physical world.
Name It. Change It releases research projects and studies demonstrating gender-based challenges women face from the media when they run for office.
Whose Streets report
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAHarvard report on “smart city” technology risks to civil liberties.
The Digital Lab Fellowship is a paid, non-resident opportunity to uncover and address emerging consumer harms in the digital world. The Fellowship may be of interest to engineers, computer scientists, information security professionals, independent researchers, academics, social scientists, and others.
97th Floor pulled thousands of digital ads, reviewed millions of dollars in ad spend, poured over scores of landing pages, read hundreds of emails, and spent entire days looking at websites, mobile apps, and social media accounts — they even donated $100 to both campaigns to see emails and ad retargeting strategies first-hand.
@EveryCRSReport
Washington, DCTwitter bot making US Congressional Research Service reports publicly available to all. By Demand Progress.
In this report, we dive into the history of public investment in technologies at the foundation of Big Tech, and the imbalances between these investments and the returns to the public sector.
The State of Mobile Internet Connectivity report is the annual flagship publication of the Connected Society programme.
This report is a result of our scanning of digital tools that we believe can boost union outreach to members, particularly young members.
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.
NYC law: Reporting on algorithmic tools used by city agencies.
New York City Council, Broadway, New York, NY, USAA Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on algorithmic tools used by city agencies
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.
World Bank Data for Better Lives report
Washington, DCCovering data for social good, data governance, and societal-level data considerations
In 2010, Paweł Reszka, Wojciech Cieśla, Michał Majewski and Roman Daszczyński got together to support journalism in the Eastern Partnership countries and created Fundacja Reporterów – the Reporters Foundation, one of the first journalistic NGO’s in Poland. In 2010 they decided to help journalists from various post-soviet countries, from Ukraine to Azerbaijan. For the first few years they trained people, among those who joined the Foundation’s projects are leading journalists in their countries (Kristina Berdinskich, Anna Babiniec, Dymitr Gnap) who have worked on well-known publications, such as the award-winning Yanukovych Leaks project.
Sahara Reporters encourages journalists to publish evidence of corruption and human rights abuses in Nigeria.
Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency Act of 2018
United States of America (the)This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget, jointly with the executive department that issues the most federal grant awards, to: (1) establish government-wide data standards for information reported by grant recipients, (2) issue guidance directing federal agencies to apply those standards, and (3) require the publication of recipient-reported data collected from all agencies on a single public website.
a selection of guidelines and discussions produced by First Draft on reporting disinformation around coronavirus and other topics ethically and responsibly, as well as a curated list of other resources to help you navigate potential issues covering what the WHO has called an ‘infodemic’.
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