Civic Tech Field Guide
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Journalism, storytelling, and other forms of interactive media are critical to civic engagement in democracies. Here we track those media and journalism tech projects that directly relate to citizens working to shift power in society.
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Google Daily Listen
Mountain View, CA"Google can turn your Discover feed into an AI-generated podcast" - The Verge
DATUM STIFTUNG für Journalismus und Demokratie
Austria (Österreich) 🇦🇹Die DATUM STIFTUNG für Journalismus und Demokratie leistet ganz konkrete und zielgerichtete Beiträge, um Qualität und Unabhängigkeit des Journalismus und damit seine Abwehrkräfte gegenüber autoritären Tendenzen zu stärken und verfolgt dabei eine systemische Herangehensweise.
Dokopalsya!
Russian Federation 🇷🇺Dokopalsya! (which playfully means "got to the bottom of it" in Russian), leverages large language models to serve as a rapid fact-checking assistant in Russian. When users share claims or news snippets, the bot identifies key assertions and checks them against reliable sources, providing evidence-based verification with links to authoritative references.
Naskvoz
Russian Federation 🇷🇺"Naskvoz" (meaning "seeing through" in Russian), analyzes news texts for emotional manipulation techniques and propaganda markers.
PGP Monitoring Lab
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)PGP’s Monitoring Lab employs several commercially available media monitoring systems that collect and organize publicly available information sources.
Nieman Lab Predictions for Journalism 2025
Harvard University, Cambridge, MAEach year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. At the end of a trying 2024, here’s what they had to say.
Nieman Lab
Harvard University, Cambridge, MAThe Nieman Journalism Lab is an attempt to help journalism figure out its future in an Internet age.
Open Politics Project
BerlinThe mission is to create an open-source data science and AI toolkit to analyse, summarise, and visualise political information.
KVNF Mountain Grown Community Radio
Paonia, COKVNF engages its communities by providing access to diverse music, news, and voices, envisioning listeners who are participating, inspired, active, and well-informed with a local and global perspective that emphasizes journalistic integrity.
South Dakota News Watch
Sioux Falls, SDSouth Dakota News Watch is an independent nonprofit organization reporting untold stories that help South Dakotans be informed and engaged citizens. South Dakota News Watch produces investigative and public service journalism that sheds light on the issues, concerns, and welfare of South Dakotans.
News Letter Journal
Newcastle, WYNews Letter Journal covers the news, sports, and entertainment important to the people of Weston County, Wyo., and provides them with the information they need to be active and engaged citizens.
Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Milwaukee, WIThe Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service provides professional, evidence-based, nonpartisan reporting to its readers, primarily in Black and Latinx communities. The news service celebrates the resilience of residents by consistently spotlighting the many ordinary people who do extraordinary things; educates readers by connecting them to resources that can help uncomplicate their busy lives; and reports on issues that create much-needed dialogue while holding institutions and leaders accountable.
KHASOKHAS
Corona, NYKhasokhas, or “verified truth,” has been the voice of the Nepali community in New York City since 2012, breaking down language barriers and providing accessible, vital information on immigration, housing, taxes, health, and more. Its goal is to be the bridge for Nepali-speaking immigrants who struggle with English, offering resources in the Nepali language through distinctive reporting, impactful storytelling, interviews, and analysis.
St. Louis Argus
St Louis, MOThe St. Louis Argus is the oldest African American publication in Missouri and sixth oldest in the country. Its aim is to provide content that covers the culture, news, arts, business, and social justice, environmental, and political issues of its community. The Argus advocates on behalf of marginalized people and matters that may sit beyond mainstream media.
InDepthNH.org gives a voice to marginalized people, places, and ideas, demonstrating its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion by the stories and columns it publishes.
L.A. TACO
Los AngelesThe L.A. TACO empowers local journalism in Los Angeles through collaborative resource sharing, comprehensive training, and fostering open-source content production to amplify diverse voices and stories within the community.
Down in the County
Oriental, NCDown in the County is a weekly publication that fights conspiracy theories with reliable, visual-first journalism and bridge-building by providing news literacy, training and ethical content from a diverse pool of local storytellers.
Sol de Medianoche News
Anchorage, AlaskaSol de Medianoche produces local, accurate, and meaningful bilingual Spanish and English content essential for the Latino community in Alaska. Its mission is to inform, educate, and unite the community.
285 South
Decatur, GA285 South is Atlanta’s only English-language news outlet dedicated to covering the metro region’s growing immigrant communities.
Samoana Meda LLC
HonoluluSāmoana Media is a social enterprise that focuses on promoting Samoan and other Pacific Islander initiatives, particularly through education and the exploration of language, culture, history, and contemporary issues.
India Currents Foundation
San Jose, CAIndia Currents is an award-winning nonprofit, nonpartisan, ethnic media organization that serves the news and information needs of the fast-growing Indian American population in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Hy-Lo News
Miami, FLHy-Lo News provides Black and brown millennials with hyperlocal news and information. Hy-Lo News gives a voice to millennials by creating news articles, video interviews, and panel discussions about breaking news, hot topics, and social issues of the day, presenting news in a tone that is engaging to millennials in South Florida.
West Texas Tribune
Abilene, TXThe West Texas Tribune informs and engages the citizens of Abilene and surrounding communities by providing fair, factual, and reliable in-depth news stories about local government, institutions, nonprofit institutions, issues, and people. Its nonprofit journalism amplifies voices in divested neighborhoods and explores solutions for those seeking social, economic, and criminal justice and racial equity.
Henrico Citizen
Henrico, VAAcross five digital daily weekday platforms, the 23-year-old Henrico Citizen seeks to tell the story of Henrico County, Va., through fair, tenacious, thorough, and clear nonpartisan journalism that enlightens, informs, and impacts the county and its nearly 335,000 citizens.
California Health Report
Los AngelesThe California Health Report is a nonprofit news organization that partners with communities across the state to share stories and offer solutions to health equity issues. It collaborates with people with disabilities, communities of color, immigrants, low-income Californians, violence survivors, rural residents, and many others to help them share ideas for making the world more equitable.
Penobscot Bay Press
Stonington, MEPenobscot Bay Press provides information products and services to the communities it serves with news of governmental, civic, business, and educational institutions; coverage of social doings and in-depth looks at individuals and events; notification of meetings and happenings; and opinions of staff and others on the important issues and problems facing its communities.
Sunlight Media Collective
Lamoine, MESunlight Media Collective is an organization of Indigenous and non-Indigenous media makers and activists, including Wabanaki citizens, working to document and present stories affecting Wabanaki people and highlighting Wabanaki perspectives, with a particular emphasis on the intersection between environmental issues and Indigenous rights.
The Real WV
Ronceverte, WVThe Real WV is a nonprofit multimedia organization that reaches beyond the headlines to touch the heart of Appalachian identity. By celebrating good news and honestly facing bad news, it tells real stories about real West Virginians and the experiences that shape them.
Athens County Independent
Athens, OHThe Athens County Independent empowers community engagement through accessible public service journalism.
Austin Monitor
Austin, TXThe Austin Monitor is the only nonpartisan local daily news source that exclusively covers the important issues and key decisions at the intersection between the local government and the community. Its mission is to create shared prosperity through a more informed and engaged community.
A nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy.
Election SOS
ChicagoElection SOS offers training & resources for journalists, connecting them to best practices, resources and support around election coverage.
Media Viability Accelerator
Internews Network, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DCJoin a free web-based platform that supports media to compete more effectively for audiences and revenues by learning from the performance of peers globally and participating in a marketplace of ideas.
Migravoice
India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳Amplifying voices of migrants and refugees in European Media
The Midwest Newsroom
IowaThe Midwest Newsroom is a partnership among Iowa Public Radio, KCUR in Kansas City, Nebraska Public Media News, St. Louis Public Radio and NPR.
New York Focus
New York stateNew York Focus is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom covering state and local politics in the Empire State. We aim to make government more transparent by publishing in-depth journalism that explains how the state really works.
Investigative Reporting Lab (IRL) Macedonia
North Macedonia (Severna Makedonija) 🇲🇰The Investigative Reporting Laboratory (IRL) is a non-profit media organization whose reporting focuses on corruption, crime and good governance.
Skeptic Reader
Spain (España) 🇪🇸Your personal bullshit🤌 detector for the Internet.
A Visual Guide to the Influencers Shaping the 2024 Election
United States of America 🇺🇸From Hasan Piker to Logan Paul, this interactive display maps how online personalities on the right and the left are using their massive followings to influence the US election.
GCA Cybersecurity Toolkit for Journalists
United States of America 🇺🇸Free and effective tools you can use right now to take action to improve the cybersecurity and integrity of your newsroom.
Google News Initiative
Mountain View, CAThe Google News Initiative works with publishers and journalists to fight misinformation, share resources and build a diverse and innovative news ecosystem.
The Google News Initiative Pre-launch Lab is a program supporting early stage entrepreneurs in journalism.
有据 (China Fact Check)
China (Zhong Guo) 🇨🇳China's first independent fact-checker, verifying international news
Project Oasis is a research effort to map independent digital media organizations, news creators and publishers-in-exile across 68 countries.
In this monthly newsletter, this media nerd explores the opportunities that emerge in this disruptive moment for new models of civic media ventures.
Guidance for Policymakers, Civil Society, and Development Cooperation
Inside The Newsroom is home to the largest curated journalism jobs board and calendar in the world.
Peabody Global Impact Awards
Georgia (US state)The Global Impact Award recognizes media or organizations that have profoundly changed the world for the better.
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