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Project Vote Smart

Providing “unbiased information on over 40,000 candidates and officials,” Project Vote Smart is an independent source tracking those “who govern or those who wish to replace those who do.”

Posted by Journalism Accelerator on December 5, 2011
Topics: Community, Education, Resources Tags: Campaign Finance, Congress, Data, Elections, Government, Policy, Public Information, Research, Tools, Transparency, Vote Easy, Voting Records

National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership

“Democratizing information,” NNIP collaborates with the Urban Institute in service of 35 local partners across the nation delivering critical public data and visualization tools to help neighborhoods thrive.

Posted by Journalism Accelerator on December 5, 2011
Topics: Distribution, Experiments, Resources, Technology Tags: Data, Data Visualization, Demographics, Geographic Information Systems, Geography, GIS, Mapping, Research, Urban

eCorner

Stanford University’s collection of videos and podcasts featuring lectures by entrepreneurial thought leaders.

Posted by Journalism Accelerator on October 4, 2011
Topics: Craft, Education, Resources, Revenue, Technology Tags: Collaboration, Entrepreneurship, Research, Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Stanford University, STVP, Thought Leaders

Linking Audiences to News: A Network Analysis of Chicago Websites

Looking at the network effect within a larger media landscape offers smart analysis of how producers and consumers of news can connect, share or remain separated.

Posted by Journalism Accelerator on September 16, 2011
Topics: Community, Distribution, Resources Tags: Analysis, Analytics, Audience Engagement, Chicago Community Trust, Information Ecology, Information Needs, Medill, Michele McLellan, Networks, Northwestern University, Research, Rich Gordon

The Knight Foundation Shares What They’re Learning

Knight’s beta site is rich with research, reflection and reports from the field of news on innovation and experiments underway.

Posted by Journalism Accelerator on September 16, 2011
Topics: Education, Experiments, Resources, Revenue Tags: Community Engagement, Education, Evaluation, Experimentation, Grants, Knight Foundation, Nonprofit, Philanthropy, Publishing, Research, Sustainability