Playing the News - URLs for Participatory Journalism: Creating, Gaming, Videoing, Visualizing News

Jan Schaffer, J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism

Foundation Blogs

• Northwest Area Foundation
  www.Communityblogs.us

News Games

• PBS Engage
  www.pbs.org/engage
• Moral Compass
  www.newsinitiative.org/story/2007/07/30/moral_compass
• MPR Budget Balancer
  news.minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/2005/03/budget
• Garbage Game
  www.gothamgazette.com/games/garbage.php

Visualizing News: Bakersfield Google mash-ups

• Pothole Map
  www.Bakersfield.com/potholemap
• Local Quirks
  www.Bakersfield.com/quirks
• Nightlife Map
  www.Bakersfield.com/nightlifemap
• Local Gangs
  www.Bakersfield.com/982

Search & Find Exercises

• EveryBlock
  www.EveryBlock.com
• CinciNavigator, Cincinnati Enquirer
  http://data.cincinnati.com/navigator/

Crowdsourcing/Citizen Watchdog

• Crowdsourcing, Team Watchdog, Ft. Myers News-Press
  http://www.news-press.net/data/ (Watchdog section on lower right of page.)

Citizen Media New Voices Grantees

• Girls on Air Podcasts, Lower Eastside Girls Club
  www.girlsclubworldwide.org/wp/
• Neighbor Media, Cambridge Community Television
  www.cctvcambridge.org/neighbormedia
• New Castle Now
  www.NewCastleNOW.org
• Greater Fulton News
  www.GreaterFultonNews.org

Other CitMedia Sites

• New Haven Independent
  www.NewHavenIndependent.com
• MinnPost
  www.MinnPost.com
• Rethink College Park
  www.RethinkCollegePark.net

Pro/Am, Venture Capital Sites

• NewWest
  www.NewWest.net
• NowPublic
  www.NowPublic.com

Think Tanks, Non-Profit Groups

• TechPresident
  www.TechPresident.com
• Crisis Guides
  www.cfr.org/publication/by_type/interactive.html

Civic Impact

• The Forum, Deerfield, N.H.
  www.forumhome.org
• Clickable Maps, Everett, Wash.
  www.tinyurl.com/2rdz3s

J-Lab Sites

• Knight Citizen News Network
  www.How-to publish.kcnn.org
• How-to publish
  www.J-Learning.org
• Follow start-ups
  www.J-NewVoices.org
• J-Lab homepage
  www.J-Lab.org