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Contently

“Giving freelance journalists a new way to efficiently manage their work,” Contently proudly notes “writers from The New York Times, Boston Globe, Wired” as customers.

Posted by Journalism Accelerator on December 16, 2011
Topics: Craft, Distribution, Experiments, Resources Tags: Brands, Content, Freelance, Matchmaking, Opportunity, Publishers, Reporter, Tools, Writer

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

The Sunlight Foundation

“Committed to improving access to government information” the Sunlight Foundation invests in innovative apps & tools, providing new ways for media to apply deep political research.

Posted by Journalism Accelerator on December 5, 2011
Topics: Experiments, Resources, Technology Tags: Data, Government, Politics, Programming, Tools, Transparency

SeeClickFix

A powerful crowdsourcing tool, SeeClickFix documents issues that “become the seeds for news stories, investigative reports, and citizen advocacy pieces.” Check out their text and map widget!

Posted by Journalism Accelerator on November 23, 2011
Topics: Community, Experiments, Resources, Technology Tags: Citizen Journalism, Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Free Tools, Government Accountability, Mobile, Mobile Technology, Reporting Tools, Tools, Watchdog Reporting

DiscoverText

“Unlocking the power of text,” DiscoverText offers new analytic tools to mine text including public comments, FOIA processing, legal eDiscovery, social media, research and more.

Posted by Journalism Accelerator on November 16, 2011
Topics: Community, Resources, Technology Tags: Civic Engagement, Crowdsourcing, eDiscovery, FOIA, Market Research, Text Analysis, Tools

Tableau Public

A free service to create and publish interactive data visualizations to the web. You don’t need to be a programmer or hire one – no language to learn, no Flash, no plug-ins and no API.

Posted by Sheetal Agarwal on April 27, 2011
Topics: Resources, Technology Tags: Analytics, Data, Tools