Grassroots Jerusalem co-director Micha Kurz sends word of his team’s internship opportunity in new media, with a goal of creating four interactive maps this summer–of streets and housing in Jerusalem, of schools and health statistics, of local stories (using multimedia), and of grassroots organizations and other local resources. Interested? Check […]
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For anyone who missed the great forum on slow-moving crises–on those complex stories that never seem to get the right kind of coverage–video is now available on TechTV: MIT Tech TV Clips of the individual speakers are also posted: Roz Williams, an MIT historian who uses imaginative literature as a […]
MIT Tech TV Governments, corporations, and communities plan for sudden crises: the White House drafts strong responsive rhetoric for the next terrorist attack; Toyota runs reassuring national TV spots within hours of a product recall; and 32 Massachusetts towns successfully publicize water distribution sites following a water main rupture. However, […]
[View one of the videos.] In April 2009, following an election widely viewed as rigged, protests erupted in Moldova. But closed-circuit video footage of the protests and subsequent violence has been leaked, and the Center for Future Civic Media was approached by the Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism to make […]
David Ardia, Daniel Schuman, and Micah Sifry What do citizens need to know when they publicly address legally challenging or dangerous topics? Journalists have always had the privilege, protected by statute, of not having to reveal their sources. But as more investigative journalism is conducted by so-called amateurs and posted […]