CDI helps publishers and others communicate in a way that takes full advantage of digital. Offering a fundamental rethinking designed to keep “vital information” read and understood.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on May 22, 2012
Topics: Craft, Distribution, Resources, Technology Tags: Access To Information, Data, Digital Journalism, Digital Literacy, Digital Publishing, Research, Technology
“Your guide to good journalism.” Special for elections: investigative reporting plus community/crowd fact-checks hoping to help keep politicos honest.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on November 16, 2011
Topics: Community, Experiments, Resources Tags: Access To Information, Accuracy, Civic Engagement, Crowdsourcing, Fact-Checking, News Literacy, Nonprofit, Social News Site, Truthsquad
Offering loads of resources and legal perspective, “the Committee has played a role in virtually every significant press freedom case that has come before the Supreme Court.”
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on October 18, 2011
Topics: Policy, Resources Tags: Access To Information, Collaboration, First Amendment, FOIA, Freedom of the Press, Legal, Legislation, Public Right to Know, Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, Transparency
With a goal of "ensuring everyone’s right to information," the National Freedom of Information Coalition has been actively supporting state member groups' and journalists' right of open access to information since 1991.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on October 12, 2011
Topics: Community, Craft, Policy, Resources Tags: Access To Information, Accountability, First Amendment, FOIA, Investigative Journalism, Knight Foundation, Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, Transparency, Watchdog Reporting
David Herzog's Open Missouri project delivers the state's largest independent directory of government databases, with tips to help empower citizens, journalists and communities.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on October 7, 2011
Topics: Craft, Education, Policy, Resources Tags: Access To Information, Civic Journalism, Data, David Herzog, FOIA, Investigative Reporters and Editors, IRE, Missouri Sunshine Law, Online Directory, Public Information, Reynolds Journalism Institute, RJI, Transparency
Big fans of the First Amendment, Free Press supports our nation’s right to be informed. Advocates of the public good, their campaigns preserve and expand the possibilities for journalism.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on September 21, 2011
Topics: Craft, Education, Policy, Resources Tags: Access To Information, Broadcast Partnerships, Change the Channels, Collaboration, Covert Consolidation, Independent Media, Josh Stearns, Journalism Policy, Media Advocacy, Media Justice, Media Ownership, Net Neutrality, Policy, Save the News
465 pages, 600+ interviews over 18 months: “Diagnosis is sound, but the remedies are lacking.”
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on August 26, 2011
Topics: Community, Distribution, Policy, Resources Tags: Access To Information, Civic Engagement, Digital Democracy, Information Ecology, Information Needs, News Entrepreneurs, Policy
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 by Journalism That Matters on April 6, 2011
Topics: Experiments, Resources, Technology Tags: Access To Information, Public Information
Josh Stearns is an associate director at Free Press, a nonprofit organization working to reform media. He manages the journalism, public media and media consolidation campaigns.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on March 28, 2011
Topics: Blog, Interview Tags: Access To Information, Covert Consolidation, Free Press, Josh Stearns, Journalism Policy, Media Consolidation, Media Ownership, Net Neutrality
Marsha Iverson is the King County Library’s public relations specialist. Iverson outlines how libraries offer valuable data, and access to top notch fact checking, as a free service available to all news and information producers.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on March 27, 2011
Topics: Blog, Craft, Interview Tags: Access To Information, Accountability, Public Information