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.
Github's Open journalism Collection
See how publications and data-driven journalists use open source to power their newsroom and ensure information is reported fairly and accurately.
Pinterest Climate Disinformation Policy
Our new policy makes Pinterest the only major digital platform to have clearly defined guidelines against false or misleading climate change information, including conspiracy theories, across content...
The Lebanon Press Elections Edition
The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead
Seekr
News site that ranks news organizations with its algorithm's partisanship score, and allows users to filter sources accordingly
The Chinese Internet’s Hidden Victims: Uncovering and Healing the Scars of Online Abuse
A special feature on cyberbullying by 歪脑 WHYNOT, nominated for a 2023 Webby Award
X-ray contact
A platform for searching information about people based on open-source data
Polis (London School of Economics)
London School of Economics’ media think-tank in collaboration with the LSE’s Department of Media and Communications.
JournalismAI
JournalismAI [at LSE] is a global initiative that empowers news organisations to use artificial intelligence responsibly.
JournalismAI Fellowship Programme
The JournalismAI Fellowship Programme is a free online initiative that brings together journalists and technologists from media organisations worldwide to explore innovative solutions to improve journ...
Airtable of JournalismAI Case Studies
In the database, we collect the best case studies we come across, to ensure that everyone in our global network can learn from and be inspired by these creative applications of AI in journalism
Machine Learning Trainings for Journalists
Free online courses supported by the Google News Initiative.
EyeWire
A game where players help researchers map the human brain
Reset.org
Digital for Good. Wir denken Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung zusammen.
Source Jobs
Source Jobs publishes job listings for people who design interactive features, write code, and work with data in newsrooms.
The Public Good Projects
We use science and technology to tackle today’s most pressing public health issues.
Storytelling for Systems Change
A report: How can stories help us change systems?
Reuters uses Airtags to investigate recycling program
A Reuters special report investigating global supply chains and sustainability programs
Audible reckoning: How top political podcasters spread unsubstantiated and false claims
Brookings report: Using a combination of analytical methods – including natural language processing, machine learning, and manual classifying – this research provided the first overarching assessment...
Black Voices in the Public Sphere Fellowship
Boston Review’s Black Voices in the Public Sphere Fellowship is designed to prepare and support a more diverse generation of journalists, editors, and publishers.
Центральноазиатская медиапрограмма MediaCAMP Award Central Asia
"Journalists and bloggers in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan can enter this contest." - International Journalists' Network
Hatemeter
Hate speech tool for monitoring, analysing and tackling Anti-Muslim hatred online
Serious Games Initiative
The Serious Games Initiative communicates science and policy complexities through the world’s most dynamic medium: gaming.
Collectif Solvo
A collective of solutions journalists
Civic Listening Corps
The CLC is a volunteer network of individuals trained to monitor for, critically evaluate, and report misinformation on diverse topics central to our civic life: voting, elections, public health, civi...
Junkipedia
Junkipedia is designed to centralize the collection of problematic content so that everyone with a stake in solving this problem can benefit from a shared understanding of what threats exist and how t...
Algorithmic Transparency Institute
The Algorithmic Transparency Institute builds technology, gathers data, and generates insights to support research, journalism, and advocacy organizations.
Hearken
Hearken's consulting and engagement platforms help newsrooms, companies, and organizations engage their audience or community.
Advancing Democracy Fellowship
This joint initiative from Hearken, Solutions Journalism Network and Trusting News will equip newsroom-based journalists to transform their coverage of democracy through solutions-focused reporting th...
Hearken's Engagement Management System
Hearken’s Engagement Management System empowers organizations to generate actionable insights from the public to create more relevant, representative and original content.
Beat Academy
Poynter’s Beat Academy is a virtual classroom designed to provide journalists from any newsroom the skills to tackle emerging coverage areas, like private equity, and better grounding on key topics li...
Hearken Switchboard
Hearken’s Community Management System, Switchboard, connects members of your community with one another so they can ask for help and offer opportunities in a safe, trusted environment.
The Flip Side
See both sides of important issues— in 5 minutes a day.
The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and scie...
The Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University
Opening in early 2012, The Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University is an interdisciplinary, cutting-edge laboratory that seeks to monitor, measure, and engage in social media conversations...
Iffy Index of Unreliable Sources
The goal is to give researchers a more complete, current, and accurate dataset of sites that spread mis/disinformation, which will lead to more accurate disinformation research.
Grist Cities + Solutions
Chronicles surprising and inspiring climate initiatives in communities across the U.S. through stories of cities leading the way
AI Tools for Local Newsrooms Database
An Airtable collection of general AI tools explaining how they can be used by local media
Veri.FYI
Prototype - Enter a URL to detect fake news websites at scale.
Let's Talk Vaccines
A free course to help journalists translate the language of vaccine science and the promise of vaccine access into compelling human stories.
The Starling Lab Journalism Fellowship
The Starling Lab, a research center anchored at Stanford University’s School of Engineering and the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, has developed a ground-breaking framework to c...
Big Local News
Empowering journalists with data, tools and collaborations
Camino
Camino is a 2D side-scrolling stealth game with Afro-surrealist elements that challenge the player to carefully manage resources and make use of their environment to fight for their loved ones and sur...
SuperSkills!
SuperSkills! is a learning ecosystem, developed by Learning Economy and LEGO Foundation. Children ages 4-12 embark on quests to help save a league of super heroes by participating in learning-through-...
Lioness
Lioness helps everyday people bring forward stories in the public interest.
Misinformation exposure
Misinformation exposure scores measure how much the politicians and public organizations you follow tend to lie (based on fact-checking their claims by PolitiFact).
Post.
Post will be a civil place to debate ideas; learn from experts, journalists, individual creators, and each other; converse freely; and have some fun.
Kevin Roose's Good Tech Awards
An annual feature by a technology columnist in the New York Times
Disinfo Matters
We’re looking beyond fake news to examine how manipulation of narratives, rewriting of history and altering our memories is reshaping our world.
International Press Institute's virtual Local Newsroom Visits
Virtual visits to innovative newsrooms
JournalismAI Festival
Using AI to make journalism better. Together.