UNICEF Kosovo Innovation Lab Room change! E14-525. Today at MIT, 3pm, RSVP req. “An afternoon with Luciano Calestini, Deputy Head of Office, UNICEF Kosovo Innovation Lab” http://cot.ag/hRWR8R Future of Journalism It’s a question that’s nagged at us too, @EricNewton1: what are the new economics of investigative journalism? http://bit.ly/iipIWF Want to […]
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Jon Moe of PRI’s Marketplace radio show spoke with our Charlie DeTar to get more background on his groundbreaking prison-blogging project, Between the Bars: Listen to This Story Prison inmates generally don’t have access to the Internet. But a new program is letting them publish handwritten blogs online. We talk […]
National Conference for Media ReformWhat a great time! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth and our demo session this weekend, including a huge number of fellow News Challenge winners. And an overmediated high-five goes out to the conference organizers from FreePress, especially Candace Clement and Libby Reinish, for […]
News from the Center Between the Bars back online! http://civic.mit.edu/blog/cfd/between-the-bars-back-online Media Lab offers dire warning to other elephants in the room: http://flic.kr/p/9uZAFc After 700+ reports of everyday heroism in Juarez, @ReganStP blogs about fostering civic pride using Crónicas de Héroes http://cot.ag/hAnEHy Civic Tools Video: Highlight heroes in your neighborhood with […]
Crónicas de Héroes, the Juárez Mexico deployment of Hero Reports, rolled out late last year with incredible success at the local level. Since November more than 700 accounts of generosity, kindness, and empathy have been reported by the Juarenes. Today cronicas are being read over the airwaves by local radio […]