Is it possible to focus on high quality reporting about geographically diverse communities while also reaching global audiences? That’s the question asked today at the Berkman Center by Ivan Sigal, executive director of Global Voices. Originally founded at the Berkman Center, Global Voices is an online citizen media network that […]
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By Matt Carroll and Jennifer Lu It was an audacious hackathon challenge — reinvent mobile news. More than 100 developers, designers, and journalists from Boston, New York, Washington, and London accepted the test, eager to transform the world of journalism. In a weekend. Fast, wild, and a little loose, people pitched ideas […]
Micah Sifry introduces Personal Democracy Forum, now in its twelfth year. The NSA-Snowden Affair broke right as the last PDF was going on. The first theme of the conference is “Save the Internet” – this could be the year that the battle really happens. Many people that are trying to […]
Terra Incognita: 1000 Cities of the World is a global news game and recommendation system designed to help you discover relevant, fun, weird, interesting or stereotype-busting information about 1000 global cities. We have just launched Terra Incognita in the Chrome Web Store so you can install it right here and […]
Field trip with Hacking students @phillipsacademy to the MIT Media Lab w/ @ethanz — so fun!!! pic.twitter.com/KCyS4Mitbl — John Palfrey (@jpalfrey) May 21, 2014 On Wednesday, May 21, 2014, we hosted the Hacking Andover class, “an experiment in education for the digital age,” comprising seniors from Phillips Andover Academy led […]