Media
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.
Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University
Led 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,...
Doublethink Labs
Doublethink 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 the...
BuzzFeed News
BuzzFeed News has breaking stories and original reporting on politics, world news, social media, viral trends, health, science, technology, entertainment, and LGBTQ issues.
Global Voices
Global Voices is an international, multilingual community of writers, translators, academics, and digital rights activists.
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
The Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) is dedicated to improving U.S. efforts to promote independent media in developing countries around the world.
Dataphyte
Dataphyte 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 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...
J++
J++ 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...
No-Ficción
Narrativa+Investigación+Datos
The Narrative Observatory
With 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 p...
211CHECK
211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.
Reporters Without Borders
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 operatin...
Outriders
Outride.rs is a website delivering a range of international journalism.
European Press Prize
Good journalism is one of the hallmarks of civilized society
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists promotes press freedom worldwide by defending the rights of journalists to report news without fear.
Chequeado
Chequeado is a non-profit, non-partisan independent media organisation and Latin America's first fact-checking site.
Correctiv
Correctiv is a German non-profit newsroom that investigates injustices and abuses of power, and runs educational programs on journalism and media literacy.
Nexo
Nexo is a Brazilian award-winning, digital-only independent media organisation.
Center for Public Integrity
The award-winning Center for Public Integrity is one of the oldest and largest non-profit news organisations in the United States.
European Journalism Centre
Since 1992, the European Journalism Centre has been building a sustainable, ethical and innovative future for journalism through grants, events, training and media development
Upworthy
Stories that connect us and sometimes even change the world.
TV News Archive and captions
Welcome to TV NEWS Archive! This research library service enables you to: Search more than 1,666,000 U.S
Openly Operated
The free transparency certification
Urban Archive
Urban Archive is a technology nonprofit that creates new connections between people, places, and historical institutions.
Manahatta
Mannahatta: The Game is a location-based game for the iPhone that maps Manhattan's historical ecosystem onto its modern day streets
Project Shield
Project Shield uses Google’s infrastructure to protect independent news sites from distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), a type of digital attack that exploits thousands or even millions of co...
RNW Media
RNW Media supports local media and impact organizations to master persuasive storytelling techniques and creative formats to create strong narratives on the world’s most pressing issues.
Gephi
Makes graphs handy
Factcheck.me
Factcheck.me tracks bot activity, amplified images, and viral links.
Harmony Labs
Decoding Media's Social Effects
Hyphe
Investigative Dashboard
Investigative Dashboard makes public documents (such as financial or property records) searchable and more useful for journalists investigating money laundering or corruption.
Onewheel
Get ready to ride the best motorized skateboard when you buy a Onewheel today! Designed and made in California from the highest quality components.
Outline
Outline makes it easy for news organizations to set up a virtual private network (VPN) on their own server.
The Fight Against Disinformation in the U.S.: A Landscape Analysis
a map of the disinformation initiatives currently in play to undergird newsrooms and improve media literacy at this challenging moment for the free press
Voxe
Chatbot to understand public debate
Games for Cities City-Game Database
This is a growing collection of games that improve city making
Faktograf
Croatian media specializing in fact checking, that is, verifying the factual accuracy of claims in public space.
Knight Media Forum
Gathering leaders in journalism, technology and philanthropy to explore the ways to strengthen local news and our democracy.
ArchiveSocial
Social Media Archiving Built for Government Transparency
News Nerdery
This Slack has over 1,300 members of the journalism-tech community from around the world, who chat in over 40 topical and geographic channels.
Cofacts
Cofacts is a collaborative system connecting instant messages and fact-check reports or different opinions together.
BuzzFeed Outside your bubble feature
A new feature on some of our most widely shared articles.
Right Richter
See what's happening in Right Wing media from the safety of your inbox.
InVID Verification Plugin
"Verification Swiss Army knife", including lookups of video clips to find them in context elsewhere
Blue Feed, Red Feed
See Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook, Side by Side. Last update 2019
Parli-N-Grams
Chart the frequency of words and phrases in UK Parliament debates
Executive Command
Ever wondered how you’d do as President of the United States? Find out with Executive Command!
BuildUp
We transform conflict in the digital age
WhatsApp Research Awards for Social Science and Misinformation
For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.