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12 November 2020
United States
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Under 800 Words
To reduce the spread of disinformation, Twitter labeled about 300,000 tweets with warnings that they contained "disputed and potentially misleading" information about the election between October 27 and November 11. T...
12 November 2020
United Kingdom
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Under 800 Words
There isn’t a lot of media outlets providing age-appropriate news for children. So, four journalists came together to create “KidNuz,” a children’s news podcast. The show has garnered thousands of listeners. “Although...
5 November 2020
United States
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800-1500 Words
Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites defended against election-related disinformation campaigns by quickly identifying and removing fake accounts and putting labels and warnings on posts that made false cla...
3 November 2020
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Several groups are working to counter disinformation aimed at the Black community by spreading accurate information and elevating local voices as trusted messengers. Organizations have disseminated accurate informatio...
2 November 2020
District of Columbia, United States
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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...
13 October 2020
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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800-1500 Words
To combat the spread of conspiracy theories, researchers at Cambridge’s Social Decision Making Lab have created an interactive game that puts users in the shoes of "manipulators" to teach them how to "question social ...
10 August 2020
Youngstown, Ohio, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Mahoning Matters formed as a news site with laid-off veterans of the Youngstown Vindicator, filling part of a void in local accountability journalism in what is now the largest U.S. city without a seven-day print news...
23 April 2020
United States
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800-1500 Words
Since launching in 2017, the nonprofit Report For America has subsidized hundreds of journalists' salaries to rebuild local-news outlets' ability to provide trusted news coverage of local public affairs. Though there ...
27 March 2020
Campbell Hill, Illinois, United States
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800-1500 Words
Illinois’ rural Trico school district didn’t have access to remote learning technology, so they turned to paper. With closure as the response to COVID-19, teachers and administrators had to find ways to cope in a regi...
29 January 2020
Helinski, Finland
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800-1500 Words
Building successful resistance to fake information begins with primary education. Finland’s national school curriculum encourages information and media literacy along with critical thinking. The pilot program consists...
28 December 2019
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Under 800 Words
Eliminating overdue fines at libraries allows low-income patrons to reengage with public resources. The Denver Public Library replaced fines with a lending restriction, meaning that patrons could only check out new it...
8 November 2019
Austin, Texas, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Non-partisan, watchdog journalism has formed a financially healthy platform for Texas Tribune in its first decade, filling a public-interest gap left by shrinkage in the number of statehouse reporters from 95 in 1989 ...
16 October 2019
Harvard, Massachusetts, United States
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1500-3000 Words
All over the country, budgets for local newspapers are drying up and these small institutions are dying with them. But in Harvard, Massachusetts (which has no connection with the university), one local paper may have ...
8 October 2019
Mosul, Iraq
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Under 800 Words
Disseminating knowledge means making websites, articles, and books available in more languages beyond English. A partnership between students at the University of Mosul and the nonprofit, Ideas Beyond Borders (IBB), i...
27 June 2019
United States
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1500-3000 Words
Fact-based, data-driven, and solution-oriented journalism can shift the media paradigm from asking “what” to asking “how.” Solutions journalism, known also as constructive journalism in Europe, focuses on data and evi...
18 May 2019
Helsinki, Finland
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Teaching students to fact check encourages resilience and builds resistance to the post-truth phenomenon. In Finland, a school curriculum implemented at the national level equips elementary and high school students wi...
27 March 2019
California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
When a new California law unlocked the disciplinary records on misconduct from 700 police agencies statewide, competing news organizations formed the California Reporting Project to accomplish as a team what would hav...
22 March 2019
Mariupol, Ukraine
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Under 800 Words
In Ukraine, IREX has developed its Listen to Discern program, which trains students how to separate fact from fiction and overall media literacy. Through methods like reverse image searching and photo forensics, teach...
21 February 2019
California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Correcting "data voids," which provide the space for conspiracies to flourish online, requires online platforms to take active measures against misinformation. In the face of digital marketing incentive structures and...
15 February 2019
Mexico
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1500-3000 Words
Independent journalists and upstart news organizations in Mexico have banded together to counter potentially deadly or disruptive fake news with a highly organized fact-checking campaign calling itself Verificado. Bes...
7 February 2019
New York, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Human-based fact checking offers a more dynamic and thorough way to determine the credibility of news outlets than the use of machine learning software. Although humans are still prone to implicit biases, NewsGuard’s ...
30 January 2019
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Where rental stores couldn’t compete, non-profits step in to preserve physical media in the digital age. Despite promises of unlimited access to media, online streaming services have actually reduced the variety of fi...
29 January 2019
Poland
Text
1500-3000 Words
Publishing various perspectives fosters civic discourse. In Poland, Projekt Spiecie addresses the challenge of ideological isolation by creating a network of magazines across the political spectrum that all agree to p...
24 January 2019
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Strengthening the link between local journalism and civic engagement lends a voice to communities long underrepresented. Chicago’s City Bureau brings the newsroom out to neighborhoods and communities. In an effort to ...
22 January 2019
Ankara, Turkey
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Education for children with autism can be a costly challenge to procure, but an app called Otsimo aims to democratize education by providing software designed specifically for autistic children. Now 3 years old with o...
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