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Resource Listings
Thursday, March 12
Tweets for Keeps: February 2020
Tools to manage your freelancing career, tips for making hard facts easy to read, making journalism “memberful,” a report about the importance of LatinX communities, resources for covering the climate crisis Tools & Tactics Tips & Techniques Innovation & Experiments Reports & Articles People & Collaboration
Sunday, January 12
Tweets for Keeps: December 2019
A Twitter sorting tool, transparency tips, an AI institute for helping vets, how to practice “right speech,” and keeping track of protests and riots Tools & Tactics Tips & Techniques Innovation & Experiments Reports & Articles People & Collaboration
Sunday, December 8
Tweets for Keeps: November 2019
Fact-checking tools, social media metrics tips, data science and AI for social good, telling stories of forgotten women, challenging journalistic barriers Tools & Tactics Tips & Techniques Innovation & Experiments Reports & Articles People & Collaboration
Sunday, November 3
Tweets for Keeps: October 2019
Digital security toolkits, a j-education guide to Slack, automated mapmaking resources, G suite for media orgs, a plethora of fundraising research resources Tools & Tactics Tips & Techniques Innovation & Experiments Reports & Articles People & Collaboration
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Ten initiatives were either spawned or invigorated at the Journalism That Matters Pacific Northwest gathering in January 2009. Slightly more than a year later, nine of those are moving forward. The initiatives, with links to their current status, are: JTMPNW Collaboratory is an ongoing initiative to encourage experimentation and collaboration to improve the news and...
Posted on April 13, 2011
Topics: Community Craft Experiments Resources
Instivate is a technology innovator headquartered in Seattle’s Central District. It offers technology for online content and advertising, audience measurement and local blogging. Instivate is the parent company of Neighborlogs, a Seattle-based community news blogging platform and ad-sharing network that was launched in June 2007. “Neighborlogs is a free, hosted placeblogging platform with an integrated...
Posted on April 13, 2011
Topics: Craft Experiments Resources Technology
InvestigateWest says it “rose from the ashes of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer” but prides itself on not being “limited by those roots.” Founded in July 2009, it is a nonprofit organization dedicated to investigative and narrative journalism whose mission statement says, in part: The old model for supporting and conducting public service journalism has collapsed. Thousands of traditional...
Posted on April 13, 2011
Topics: Community Craft Experiments Resources
Intersect is a place to celebrate and share stories of all kinds from throughout our lives – past, present, and future. Stories are the way we connect with each other, find common ground, and communicate values. At Intersect, we love stories— from the silly and fun to the deeply meaningful. Our goal is to make...
Posted on April 13, 2011
Topics: Community Craft Experiments Resources
Founded in 1998, HistoryLink calls itself the “free online encyclopedia of Washington State History” and says it is “the first and largest encyclopedia of community history created expressly for the Internet.” With more than 5,550 original, sourced essays as of March 2010, it is an incredible public resource. The nonprofit site says it serves an...
Posted on April 6, 2011
Topics: Community Resources
The purpose of Data.Seattle.Gov is to increase public access to high value, machine-readable datasets generated by various departments of Seattle City Government.” Source: Data.Seattle.Gov
Posted on April 6, 2011
Topics: Experiments Resources Technology
A brief overview of the issue by JA’s Tram Whitehurst On February 16, several Republican Senators introduce a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act to repeal net neutrality regulations adopted by the Federal Communications Commission last year. The following day, the House of Representatives voted to prevent the FCC from implementing the controversial...
Posted on March 17, 2011
Topics: Policy Resources
Accessing information to support reporting is easier than ever. Governments and corporations publish countless bytes of data online so web scrapers can use a rotating residential proxy to gather the data that’s relevant to them. But very little information comes in a structured form that lends itself to easy analysis. Reporters often are faced with...
Posted on March 7, 2011
Topics: Experiments Resources Technology
The Common Language Project is a new-media nonprofit with a mission to engage, educate and inform Americans of all ages on the crucial human issues of our time through innovative and accessible journalism.
Posted on February 27, 2011
Topics: Education Resources
Just wanted to let the JA community know that we've submitted a Knight News Challenge open government grant application to expand OpenMissouri to our cities. If you'd like to know more, or support the application, go here: https://www.newschallenge.o...