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World Press Freedom Day 2014 .

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Knight News Challenge

Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. We believe that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged.

The Knight News Challenge accelerates media innovation by funding breakthrough ideas in news and information. Winners receive a share of $5 million in funding - and support from Knight’s network of influential peers and advisors to help advance their ideas. Innovators from all industries and countries are invited to participate.

MacArthur Foundation

MacArthur Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, the Foundation works to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how technology is affecting children and society.

Open Journalism Community

Knight-Mozilla Fellowships

The Knight-Moziila Fellowships bring together developers, technologists, civic hackers, and data crunchers to spend 10 months working on open source code with partner newsrooms.

Overview

Overview is an open-source tool for searching, visualizing, and culling large volumes of documents or text. Used by journalists, researchers, and you.

Open Journalism Feeds

Open Journalism Community

Berkman Center for Internet and Society

The Berkman Center's mission is to explore and understand cyberspace; to study its development, dynamics, norms, and standards; and to assess the need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions.

The Berkman Center is a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.

Online Media Legal Network (OMLN)

The Online Media Legal Network (OMLN) is a free legal referral service that connects qualifying online journalism ventures and digital media creators with lawyers willing to provide legal services on a pro bono or reduced-fee basis. OMLN supports promising ventures and innovative thinkers in online and digital media by providing access to legal help that would otherwise be unavailable.

The Online Media Legal Network (OMLN) is a network of law firms, law school clinics, in-house counsel, and individual lawyers throughout the United States willing to provide pro bono (free) and reduced fee legal assistance to qualifying online journalism ventures and other digital media creators. The Harnisch Foundation

The Harnisch Foundation has been a catalyst for sustainable social change, funding and implementing innovation in the fields of philanthropy, coaching and journalism.

We are collaborative and inclusive. Our projects often showcase the work of others, and we act as a convener.

Our belief is that philanthropy, coaching and journalism are ways of making a powerful difference in the world through the lives of individuals. Our team, including board, staff, volunteers, and partners, are committed to transparency in all our operations.

Our work is dedicated to unleashing untapped capacity.

Awesome Without Borders

Do you have a zany, over-the-top, “no one will ever fund this because it’s too crazy” kind of idea? You’re in the right place! From Buffalo to Zimbabwe, we’ve supported an installation that lit up the Arizona Canal, a magazine controlled by its readers, and a street-side ball pit that encourages connectedness. There is awesome lurking in every corner. Our job is to find and fund it.

Welcome to Awesome Without Borders!

“The Awesome Foundation distributes a series of monthly $1,000 grants to projects and their creators. The money is pooled together from the coffers of ten or so self-organizing “micro-trustees” and given upfront in cash, check, or gold doubloons. The chapters are autonomous and organized by the trustees around geographic areas or topics of interest. The Foundation provides these grants with no strings attached and claims no ownership over the projects it supports. It is, in the words of one of our trustees, a micro-genius grant for flashes of micro-brillia

Roy Rosenzweig chnm (Center for History and New Media)

CHNM uses digital media and technology to preserve and present history online, transform scholarship across the humanities, and advance historical education and understanding. Each year CHNM’s many project websites receive over 20 million visitors, and over a million people rely on its digital tools to teach, learn, and conduct research.

Folks at CHNM spend most of their time working on cutting edge, grant-funded research projects like Zotero, Teachinghistory.org, and the Papers of the War Department. However, as a leader in the growing fields of digital history and digital humanities, CHNM is also eager to assist other historical, educational, cultural, and governmental organizations meet the challenges of the digital age. Whether your institution is looking to manage its research activities more effectively, build a new teaching website or its next online exhibition, or improve its overall web and social media strategy, CHNM can help with a range of custom contract development, consulting, and support services, including:

Effective States

The Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre (ESID) is based at the Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) and the Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI), University of Manchester, and is funded by the UK’s Department for International Development.

Knight-Mozilla OpenNews

Know Your Rights for Libraries

Los Angeles Times Data Desk, The Center for Investigative Reporting

Open Journalism

Open Journalism has become a core principle of digital media for forward-thinking outlets such as The Guardian newspaper in Britain, is often used to mean journalism that engages with its audience (or “the people formerly known as the audience” as Jay Rosen calls them) and allows them to contribute to the process. But the idea of opening up journalism is also about what media companies can do beyond just producing articles or facts for people to consume — and a big part of that is opening up the data behind their stories.

Open Journalism Community

sparc (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) North America

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OpenNews

Data Journalism

Global Voices - Citizen Media Stories From Around the World

Global Voices - Citizen Media Stories From Around the World Data-Driven Discovery Initiative seeks to advance the people and practices of data-intensive science, to take advantage of the increasing volume, velocity, and variety of scientific data to make new discoveries. Within this initiative, we’re supporting data-driven discovery investigators – individuals who exemplify multidisciplinary, data-driven science, coalescing natural sciences with methods from statistics and computer science. DDD Investigators offically, are recipients of the ddd Investigator Awards, for beating out their competition, while adhering to the principles of the ddd Initiative.

Social Sciences

Audible Impact is a podcast series from the LSE Impact blog, which publishes daily posts on the visibility, evaluation and diversity of social science research via LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog.

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Resources

Community Access Info Europe

Access Info Europe and n-ost are working to empower journalists to recoup their role as public watchdogs through exercise of their right of access to information in both their own country and other countries.

The primary goal of LegalLeaks goal is also to protect media freedom by promoting techniques by which journalists can protect the security of their data and of confidential sources of information. We are also working to promote cross-border collaboration between journalists from across Europe, the project will strengthen networks of journalists who will help each other file requests for information in each other’s countries and cooperate on investigations.

The long-term goal of these activities is to invigorate and strengthen European journalism thereby contributing to better access to information, to higher quality public debates, to increased public participation in decision-making, and thereby to more open and democratic societies.

FOIA

Article 19: Defending freedom of expression and information

The Citizen Lab

The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory focusing on advanced research and development at the intersection of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), human rights, and global security.

OpenNet Initiative (oni)

The is a collaborative partnership of three institutions, whose aim is to investigate, expose and analyze Internet filtering and surveillance practices in a credible and non-partisan fashion.

Toolkit

Tools

LegalLeaks Toolkit

is designed for journalists working in any media – newspapers, radio, and television – as well as bloggers and other information professionals who need to get access to information held by public bodies for their stories.

The toolkit is for journalists making requests in their own country or considering filing a request in another country.

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Culture and or Diversity AlterConf Discussions of diversity in the tech and gaming industries are spreading faster than ever. No longer can companies, conferences, and organizations feign ignorance when it comes to the way they participate in our communities or do business. Our mission is in educating the greater tech and gaming communities about the different aspects of diversity and how marginalization becomes an impediment. In spotlighting initiatives and powerful voices, we hope to strengthen the community's resolve to create safer, healthier spaces. With the AlterConf Sessions we move beyond the 101 discussions and limited definition of diversity, covering all aspects of diversity - race, gender, sexuality, ability, class, language, country of origin, immigration status, and more. These micro events feature speakers from the surrounding area critically analyzing the culture, showcasing their projects, and presenting a view of what our communities could be. They'll cover a wide variety of topics in whatever format they feel is appropriate: talk, discussion, panel, spoken word, video, mixed media.

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Toolsets

freedom_info The freedominfo.org website provides country by country breakdown of the state of freedom of information across the world. Right_to_Info Right2INFO.org brings together information on the legal frameworks for the right to information from more than 80 countries, organized and analyzed by topic. Herdict

Herdict is a user-driven platform for identifying web blockages as they happen, including denial of service attacks, censorship, and other filtering. Reporting to Herdict when you can't access the content you want contributes to our aggregated data that helps us monitor the health of the Internet in real time.

Have you ever come across a web site that you could not access and wondered, ”Am I the only one?” Herdict Web aggregates reports of inaccessible sites, allowing users to compare data to see if innacessibility is a shared problem. By crowdsourcing data from around the world, we can document accessibility for any web site, anywhere. This is our official blog, which we’ll be updating regularly with the latest breaking news and research from our ongoing efforts. COMM Blogroll Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. Open Journalism

Open Journalism has become a core principle of digital media for forward-thinking outlets such as The Guardian newspaper in Britain, is often used to mean journalism that engages with its audience (or “the people formerly known as the audience” as Jay Rosen calls them) and allows them to contribute to the process. But the idea of opening up journalism is also about what media companies can do beyond just producing articles or facts for people to consume — and a big part of that is opening up the data behind their stories.

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