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.
Patch
The best breaking news, stories, and events from the Patch network of local news sites
Before the Storm
A game of forecasts and action
Listening Post Collective
The Listening Post Collective provides journalists, newsroom leaders, and non-profits tools and advice to create meaningful conversations with their communities.
March for Our Lives
Join the movement. Sign up to join us on the Road to Change, where we'll be registering people to vote across the country and demanding change to save lives.
International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN)
The International Fact-Checking Network is a unit of the Poynter Institute dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide.
Democracy and Digital Media conference
To have been major transformations in global media infrastructure, the platformization of the Internet, and the ubiquity of the mobile phone.
News Provenance Project (NPP)
The News Provenance Project seeks to diminish the spread of misinformation by empowering readers to make more informed, confident judgments about the news they see online.
CredCon
#CredCon is an ongoing two-day hackathon that considers the impact of technology on news and information sources online and explores themes such as trust, reliability, accuracy and credibility.
Solutions Journalism Network
Solutions Journalism Network: We train and connect journalists to cover what’s missing in today’s news: how people are responding to problems.
Nonprofit Journalism Issues Around Impact
A 2012 white paper from Pro Publica by Richard J. Tofel
GOOD.is
News for the global citizen covering stories from business, environment, politics, art, design, culture, technology, education, urban issues and the latest news
openDemocracy
Through reporting and analysis of social and political issues, we seek to educate citizens to challenge power and encourage democratic debate across the world.
Right To Be (formerly Heartmob)
Join the movement to end online harassment! We’re fighting fire with water, and working step by step to assist people facing harassment, educate communities, and stop harassment online.
OneSub
Break your echo chamber
Arena Housing Project
Open collaborative network for journalists and other researches, experts and engaged people working on housing across Europe
Mapping LA
This regional view is your portal to individual maps and statistics for 158 cities and unincorporated places and 114 neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles.
HateLab
Harnessing Data Science to Measure and Counter Hate Speech & Crime
Google Trends
Explore what the world is searching
Creative Action Network
Gifts that give Back
FoldIt
Online SOS
OnlineSOS empowers people facing online harassment
Knowhere News
Action Button
Action Button lets you instantly #TakeAction on news that matters. Don’t just read the headlines, change them.
Analysis of the Modern Media Ecosystem: An Open Toolkit
This is an open document for developing a media analysis toolkit.
City Bureau
City Bureau is a nonprofit civic journalism lab based on the South Side of Chicago. We bring journalists and communities together in a collaborative spirit to produce media that is impactful, equitabl...
Sugarcube
Monoidal data sequences.
Media Cloud
Media Cloud is an open-source platform for media analysis.
How to Help: News You Can Do Something About
How to Help is a digital media startup that connects you with ways to do something about the day’s big news stories.
Truthiness Collaborative
To advance research and engagement around the misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and other challenges to discourse fueled by our evolving media and technology ecosystem
Ctrl Alt Right Delete
Ctrl Alt-Right Delete is a weekly newsletter devoted to understanding how the far right operates online and developing strategies and tactics to fight back
FactNameh
Factchecking Iranian public officials and media
StoryCorps
To preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world
Choose Your Own Fake News game
Choose Your Own Fake News is an interactive "choose your own adventure" game.
Digital Methods Initiative Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset (DMI-TCAT)
Digital Methods Initiative - Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset
Fakenews.rs
FakeNews Tragač vaš je saveznik u borbi protiv lažnih vesti. Čitajte o najnovijim dezinformacijama i prijavite lažne vesti za dalju analizu.
Global Disinformation Index
We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.
Digital Health Lab
At Meedan’s Digital Health Lab we are researching, designing and testing a digital response framework for addressing health misinformation online, centered around accessibility and equity.
Le Drenche
Confronting opposite opinions to fight filter bubbles
TRACKBACK
BuzzFeed News's YouTube show fighting misinformation
Istinomjer (Bosnia & Hertzegovina)
Istinomjer je inicijativa koja u svom fokusu ima promociju odgovornosti političkih partija koje participiraju u izvršnoj vlasti, kao i nosioca javnih funkcija koji imaju odgovornost prema građanima/ka...
Journocoders
We are a community group of journalists and others who work in the media, or are planning to in the future.
Tools for Reporters
Digital upheaval also means a whole universe of tools and techniques are out there to make your reporting easier, faster, harder, smarter.
Maidan Monitoring Information Center
Maidan Monitoring Information Center is a non-government non-profit civic organization that cares for societal security in Ukraine, which is achieved through public dialogue, improving the culture of...
The Free Speech Project
The Free Speech Project at Georgetown University works to document and analyze the ways Free Speech is threatened in the United States through its flagship enterprise, the Free Speech Tracker, an onli...
Aunt Meiyu
A Taiwanese developer Carol created a chatbot called Aunt Meiyu on popular messaging app LINE. Aunt Meiyu is designed to combat disinformation circulated in private chat group, especially family chat...
Factmata
Empowering everyone with a better understanding of content.
NY Times pilot tests journalism action
The New York Times beta Android app appears to be experimenting with a GoFundMe link to help readers touched by a story give back. Newspapers have run fundraising drives for local residents for years,...
HealthTools
HealthTools gives citizens localised answers to everyday health challenges via SMS and the web to help the mwananchi get the best medical care. Data is from reputable official sources, with additional...
Suffragetto game
Players take on the role of suffragettes trying to occupy the House of Commons, or police officers trying to break up the protest.
Fake News Hong Kong
This website collects and verifies fake news reports.