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