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Doing the Tango with Media Innovation in Argentina

I got engaged at the Media Party in Buenos Aires.

No, I did not fall in love with some sultry tango dancer. I got engaged by a plethora of projects from across Latin America that aim to pull audiences into the news -- everything from fact-checking politicians' blather to making tough decisions about the national budget to rating health care services.

What's Keeping the Media Away From the Open Data Chat?

In early September, hundreds of open data practitioners, civil servants, researchers, technologists and specialists in health, agriculture, governance and education gathered in Tanzania for the first Africa Open Data Conference.

But the media were largely missing from the event apart from during the opening plenary by Dr.

ICFJ Knight Roundup: ANCIR Advisor Named Finalist for Global Shining Light Award

Each week as part of the Knight International Media Innovators blog, the ICFJ Knight team will round up stories focused on how their fellows are making an impact in the field. Find out more about the fellows' projects by clicking here.

"A Document Frame of Mind" Goes a Long Way in Data Journalism

It’s all about the evidence.

David Donald, a data journalist in residence at the American University School of Communication, stressed this fact during a recent talk with visiting Pakistani journalists from ICFJ’s U.S.-Pakistan Professional Partnership in Journalism.

"Everything I talk about is in the context of evidence," Donald said.

GKillCity's "Counter-Cultural" Presence Redefines News in Ecuador

Take the deep contributor pool of the Huffington Post, add the tone and perspective of Global Voices plus the card-style contextual reporting of Vox, and you have GkillCity, a multimedia news platform in Ecuador.

The 2015 Media Party Did Not Disappoint This Year With These Four Tools

Every year since 2012, the Media Party, organized by ICFJ Knight Fellow Mariano Blejman and Hacks/Hackers-Buenos Aires, showcased the latest digital and data-driven technologies.

The 2015 Media Party did not disappoint.

ICFJ's staff scouted the event, attended by over 1600 media professionals and enthusiasts, and rounded up these exciting digital tools, some of which are already available and some that should be in newsrooms and users' toolkits in the coming months.

What we especially liked about these tools is that they are all open source, letting journ

Former Knight Fellow Named Innovator-in-residence at Florida University

Mariana Santos, Fusion’s interactive and animation director, has been named the new Knight Innovator in Residence at Florida International University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

As an ICFJ Knight Fellow in 2013, Santos founded Chicas Poderosas (Powerful Women), a digital training program and networking opportunity to expose female journalists in Latin America to digital innovation.

Following the ICFJ fellowship, she also won a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University, where she continued her work to promote women leaders in the field of media technology.

ICFJ Knight Roundup: Fellows Lead at African Open Data Conference in Tanzania

_Each week as part of the Knight International Media Innovators blog, the ICFJ Knight team will round up stories focused on how their fellows are making an impact in the field.

Vox.com's Melissa Bell on how to Engage Audiences Through Ideas and Branding

After growing from zero to 22 million unique monthly visitors in just seven months, digital news site Vox.com knows a thing or two about growing an audience.

"There’s so many ideas out there, but there’s something that makes your idea unique, and that is really what will bring audiences to it," said Melissa Bell, co-founder of Vox.com and formerly of the Washington Post, during a Media Party workshop.

Living Wage Calculator Sums Up Income Inequality in South Africa

Want to know if you’re paying your domestic worker a living wage? A new data journalism tool allows employers in South Africa to find out the answer to that question.

The ​Living Wage Calculator was created by Code for South Africa (Code4SA) to focus attention on a large and essential sector of the country’s labor force. Domestic workers make up 6 percent of South African workers.