ICFJ Knight Fellowships

ICFJ Knight Roundup: impactAFRICA Funds $500k Contest to Support Data Journalism

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.

How Digital Newsrooms Can Use Chat Bots to Their Advantage

Have you ever spoken to a chat bot? You may have done so and not even realized it. But if technology companies have their way, it's likely that you'll spend time in conversation with one in 2016.

And if chat bots are a breakthrough success in 2016, how will the media be able to harness this new technology?

Chat bots are online services programmed to take actions or give automated responses based on comments or questions that a user sends to them. These responses can be very simple, like checking the weather near you or providing transport timetables.

Code for Africa and Open Knowledge Help Push for Open African Governments

"Open" has become a new buzzword for many governments around the world.

How Oscar Castilla Made the Leap to Digital and Launched Online News Site Ojo Público

Oscar Castilla spent 12 years at El Comercio, Peru's most important daily newspaper, honing his reporting skills with investigations of organized crime and corruption.

Then, in 2014, Castilla and some colleagues from the investigative unit decided to leave the paper for editorial reasons.

"The editor at the time had one view of journalism and we had another," he told me in an interview.