Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
31 August 2021
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Park Rx America is an online platform that helps the growing number of medical professionals who write nature prescriptions for their patients. The database contains thousands of parks and public lands, which prescrib...
3 August 2021
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A Florida constitutional amendment enacted in 2018 called Marsy's Law protects crime victims' rights, including the right to privacy when public-records laws would otherwise reveal victims' identity. But the Jacksonvi...
13 July 2021
Rwanda
Text
800-1500 Words
Common Voice is an open-source initiative to capture more languages for voice-recognition software. Users “donate” their voices by recording themselves reading text out loud. They can also validate the accuracy of alr...
17 May 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Five years after the FBI started tracking how often police use force, the majority of police departments still fail to comply and the FBI refuses to release publicly what information it has collected. The policy was e...
16 May 2021
Woodland, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
By turning over its criminal justice data to Measures for Justice, a nonprofit developer that turns raw data into publicly available reports, the Yolo County district attorney has a much better grasp on the work that ...
19 March 2021
Reedley, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
For many college students, the cost of a textbook is often cost-prohibitive and instructors are looking at ways to address that. At Reedley College in California, instructors are curating their own teaching content th...
8 March 2021
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, with the help of scientists, academics, and other volunteers, preserved EPA data and information that the Trump administration sought to erase. They held “guerrilla ar...
U.S. News & World Report
Thomas K. Grose
24 February 2021
United Kingdom
Text
1500-3000 Words
When the SARS-CoV-2 variant emerged in the United Kingdom, scientists in Britain were able to quickly identify it and warn other countries thanks to the use of genome sequencing. Now other countries, such as Denmark, ...
21 February 2021
Evanston, Illinois, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
When a teenager in Evanston, Illinois realized that senior citizens were facing difficulties securing Covid vaccination appointments due to technology barriers, he created a website to help eliminate some of the techn...
13 February 2021
United States
Podcast
5-15 Minutes
Democracy Works has a suite of programs that make it easier to vote. TurboVote helps its 7 million subscribers easily register to vote by taking them to their state's online registration site or by sending them the pa...
Flint Beat
Carmen Nesbitt
17 January 2021
Flint, Michigan, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, public health officials in Flint, Michigan began tracking the demographics of those who were testing positive for the virus in order to better align the county's public health...
15 January 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Digital sleuths preserved a trove of evidence from the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by acting quickly to "scrape" and archive videos, images, and other data from social media. Investigative journalists ...
15 January 2021
California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Residents of California are working together to crowdsource where COVID-19 vaccinations are being offered, and who they're being offered to. While the state has failed to implement a transparent dissemination strategy...
8 January 2021
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Several groups are preserving digital content related to the capital insurrection to ensure it is archived in case it gets deleted. A subreddit thread collected thousands of Tweets, Snapchats, and other videos to uplo...
Bangor Daily News
Erin Rhoda
9 December 2020
Colorado, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A Colorado law enacted in 2016 requires law enforcement officers to disclose their past disciplinary records when seeking a new job at a different agency. By making such disclosures automatic, the law standardizes hir...
23 November 2020
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Once viewed as one of the nation's most brutal and corrupt police departments, New Orleans Police Department has earned steadily improving public support with a host of reforms. One reform that it took voluntarily, an...
2 November 2020
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Talk2020 is a searchable database from the Wall Street Journal with thousands of transcripts from presidential and vice-presidential candidates’ campaign speeches, media appearances, debates, and more. Users can filte...
28 October 2020
Missouri, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In 2000, Missouri passed one of the nation's first and most comprehensive laws aimed at ending racial profiling by police in traffic stops. But racial disparities have grown worse since then, with Black drivers far mo...
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Katia Mullova
26 October 2020
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
SkyTruth, a nonprofit environmental watchdog organization, is using satellite imagery and remote sensing data to identify and monitor the impacts of human industrial activity on the natural environment. Their service ...
19 October 2020
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 and the health impacts it may have for different people prompted doctors from across the U.S. to create a national patient database to better study and understand how the virus int...
18 October 2020
New Hampshire, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
New Hampshire's official response to nationwide protests of racial bias in policing lacks a critical element: a statewide database showing the race of drivers and passengers in police stops and arrests. Unlike neighbo...
29 September 2020
Utah, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Concerned about the high numbers of suicides in the state, Utah's local government introduced a three-pronged approach to preventing further suicides that hinged on targeting gun owners and Second Amendment activists....
2 September 2020
Colombia
Text
1500-3000 Words
A cross-border collaborative and investigative journalism effort brought 24 media organizations in 14 countries and more than 40 media professionals to report on the migrants from Asia and Africa who travel every year...
2 September 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Groups in the Bay Area that have successfully sought to have police disciplined for misconduct and won new police-accountability policies have turned their form of organized monitoring into a training platform for pro...
28 August 2020
Kansas, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
The National Education Association has launched a school-focused COVID-19 case tracker in the U.S., all thank to the efforts of a Kansas theater teacher. Alisha Morris started with an excel sheet and took to online se...
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