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How To Boost Data Literacy in Journalism

This year’s MIT-Knight Center for Civic Media Conference, “The Story & the Algorithm,” showcased how data innovations are changing storytelling, burgeoning models for seeding that innovation and, of course, a whole lot of apps.

Jul 102012

News Apps Help Journalists and Audiences Collect and Verify Data

by Ben Colmery

One of the most exciting features of this year’s MIT-Knight Center for Civic Media Conference was a chance to check out several new apps and projects, many still in development. These new apps will enable people to collect data in new ways and check facts more easily. All of them can enhance journalism, and many can engage audiences in the process.

Jul 62012

Final Call for Submissions to the African News Innovation Challenge

Got a great idea for advancing the news media in Africa? You still have time to enter the African News Innovation Challenge—a global competition designed to spark cutting-edge projects that will strengthen African media. The deadline is midnight on July 10, 2012 (Central African Time).

Modeled after the highly successful Knight News Challenge and launched by African Media Initiative (AMI), the competition will award US$1 million in startup capital.

Program:

Sub-Saharan Africa: Spurring Innovation and Experimentation in Newsrooms

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MIT Conference - Knight Fellows Gather

The author, far left, along with Knight Fellows and ICFJ President Joyce Barnathan (second from right), got a chance to see new apps and projects at the MIT-Knight Center for Civic Media Conference.

MIT-ICFJ Gathering

Knight International Journalism Fellows and ICFJ staff attended the 2012 Knight-MIT Civic Media conference to share their knowledge of merging traditional journalism with innovative technology. Left to right: Jorge Luis Sierra, Ayman Salah, Ronnie Lovler, ICFJ President Joyce Barnathan, Justin Arenstein and Knight Fellowships Deputy Director Ben Colmery.