[...] As media writer Andrew Beaujon at the Poynter Institute notes, Reddit quickly became the go-to spot for comprehensive information about the shooting and its aftermath. Although other sites put up Storify collections of tweets from individuals who were at the scene — including one of the victims — as a way of tracking how the news spread, the community […]
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The Knight Foundation announced the winners of the first round of its Knight News Challenge — a contest aimed at funding the next generation of news entrepreneurs. This round was aimed at startups that are leveraging existing networks to develop video, mobile and crowdsourced solutions to filtering big data. (Source: GigaOM) Peepol.tv leverages streaming networks to aggregate […]
“Ushahidi worked with Al-Jazeera to track events on the ground in Gaza via SMS messages, email, or the web. Events were then sent in by reporters and civilians through the platform and put into a Twitter feed entitled AJGaza, which gave the event a time stamp. By cross-checking with other sources such as Reuters, the […]
” [...] With over 20,000 installations of Ushahidi and Crowdmap since January, 2009, Ushahidi has been used in a number of different contexts – from earthquake support in Haiti, to reports of sexism in Egypt, to election monitoring in the Sudan. In each of these cases, a map is publicized and individuals are encouraged to […]
“[...] Mr. Malkoun emphasizes that he is not looking to displace traditional media, but instead complement it and raise its standards through citizen journalism. “Signal provides traditional media companies a faster, wider, and more reliable access to real-world events,” he says. “Viewers and reporters will have access to images almost immediately as they’re being taken.” […]
