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23 April 2020
United States
Text
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
Text
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
Text
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...
Pacific Standard
Mark Oprea
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
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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
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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
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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...
9 December 2018
England
Text
Under 800 Words
A percentage of the licensing fee paid by British television watchers to BBC is now being earmarked to support the salaries of reporters. In order to receive funding, newsrooms must assign staff paid by these funds to...
27 November 2018
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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800-1500 Words
Operating as a low-power FM radio station, Detroit’s 96.7 WNUC provides an independent platform for community voices and interests. Programming ranges from shows focusing on Detroit’s musical legacy to discussions of ...
Talk Africa
Mercy Odada
26 October 2018
Nairobi, Kenya
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Under 800 Words
In 2016, Kenya's government instituted a broadcast programming code that required reporting programs to include sign language interpretation. Through this code, people with hearing impairment have access to news and i...
14 August 2018
California, United States
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
Alastair Mactaggart, decided he had enough off companies like Facebook and Google, which make trillions of dollars from collecting private data from users. While the U.S. has made attempts to regulate consumer privacy...
21 March 2018
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
As America’s war in Afghanistan reaches 17 years, the war in Iraq reaches 15 years, and military action continues in other parts of the world there is a need for reporting on these conflicts that is informed, independ...
3 September 2017
Argentina
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Under 800 Words
In Argentina, where less than half the country trusts media and most believe mainstream media to be biased, many people are creating their own forms of media. One collective, DTL! Comunicacion Popular, assembles anten...
The Hindu
R. Avadhani
8 April 2017
Zaheerabad, India
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Under 800 Words
Sangam Radio is India's oldest community radio station as well as the first station run by women. Broadcasting two hours a day, Sangam plays recording of songs collected in the field, personal stories of community mem...
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