journalism

Journalism is a term that is undergoing both scrutiny and rapid change. It describes the professional standards of information gathering, fact checking, and clear communication. The term has expanded to include citizen journalists who report on their communities and bloggers who indulge in everything from gossip to genuine news to personal reflection. New developments in citizen journalism and youth journalism and new formats such as comics are also part of the civic media landscape.

PageOneX

PageOneX is a tool to visualize the evolution of stories on newspaper front pages. Newspaper front pages are a key source of data about our media ecology. Newsrooms spend massive time and effort deciding what stories make it to the front page.

Media Cloud

Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems — the relationships between professional and citizen media, between online and offline sources.

CRONICAS DE HEROES 1st Anniversary

Submitted by yesica on December 20, 2011 - 11:37am

CRÓNICAS DE HÉROES -an implementation in México of Hero Reports- celebrates today, DEC. 20 2011, its first anniversary.
Yesica Guera, the Director of the initiative as well as the team behind of CRÓNICAS DE HÉROES in Mexico would like to thank all of those who have supported us during the past year and would like to give a general overview of what has been accomplished and where we stand.

The team of CRÓNICAS DE HÉROES has been quite busy for the past twelve months:

Mind the Map: Toward a Handbook for Journalists

Submitted by kanarinka on May 16, 2013 - 5:35pm

by Luisa Beck and Catherine D’Ignazio, with suggestions from the Participatory News class

“What is it we want our maps to be now, if no longer a single authoritative view or the world?” 
- Brooke Gladstone, Host of NPR’s On the Media

Guns, Wars and Terrorism in a real size PageOneX (photo essay)

Submitted by pablo on April 25, 2013 - 2:53am

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I finally installed the PageOneX real size project with stories related to guns, wars and terrorism. Come visit the display this week to the second floor of building E14 at MIT Media Lab. Thanks all of you that helped in this process!
What follows is a photographic guide to the PageOneX real size installation.
out-of-town-news_kioskYou’ll not find Washington Post or LA Times in Boston news stands. It’s so difficult to get the paper!

I would have never thought it was so difficult to get the paper

Submitted by pablo on April 16, 2013 - 3:02pm

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It was one of those ideas that seemed easy: to build a real size 1:1 scale of a PageOneX analysis. I just needed to buy 4 newspapers during 4 weeks, highlight certain stories, and put them on the wall. However, as it usually happens, things are easier said that done.

Finding the newspapers

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81 Ways Humanitarian Aid has Become Participatory

Submitted by mstem on April 8, 2013 - 11:53am

My Media Lab Master's thesis argues that information and communication technologies, and particularly the web, have expanded the range of ways the public can help in times of crisis, even (or especially) if we're nowhere near said crisis. Or, to be more formal about it, participatory aid is mutual, peer-to-peer aid mediated or powered by information and communication technology. We're building a platform to help coordinate participatory aid projects, but first, I wanted to share some examples.

Tracking memes across television news: A tool for analyzing how stories move through broadcast

Submitted by mstem on March 21, 2013 - 2:06pm

Too long, didn’t read: You can use this Ruby script to query Archive.org’s recently-launched TVNews archive and download JSON files with the results. It’s great for tracking how frequently a person or topic shows up in U.S. televised news broadcasts.

(cross-posted at Nieman Journalism Lab)

Brian McGrory on The Boston Globe's new frontiers

Submitted by rodrigodavies on March 21, 2013 - 1:51pm

Brian McGrory and Ethan Zuckerman at the Center for Civic Media, MIT

Photo: Brian McGrory, editor of The Boston Globe, and Ethan Zuckerman at the Center for Civic Media, 03/21/13

This is a liveblog by Catherine, Erhardt and Rodrigo and may contain errors and typos. Feel to correct typos, add useful links and references. You can watch a live-prezi of the talk by Willow Brugh at the bottom of the article.

Ethan Zuckerman starts his introduction of Brian by describing the Center's partnership with the Globe, and explains that the Globe is undergoing a transition in editorial, ownership and strategy.

Who wrote the news? Gender in the front page

Submitted by pablo on March 18, 2013 - 10:25am

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The best way to show the last improvements in PageOneX's development is by using them. After lasts Ed's commits it is possible to draw as many rectangles as you need when coding a single front page, whereas before it was only possible to draw 2 rectangles per image.

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