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Articles tagged crowdsourcing (91)

Shan WangNovember 30, 2017

At this EU-supported online outlet for young Europeans, its readers are also its writers and translators

Cafébabel’s articles — all of which are available in multiple languages — inhabit a Europe where Italians might care about a climate policy issue in Portugal or Spaniards might be interested in an up-and-coming artist from Switzerland.

Shan WangMay 11, 2017

Investigative outlet Correctiv crowdsourced data collection with the help of a local newsroom

Using its Crowd Newsroom platform, the German nonprofit teamed up with Ruhr Nachrichten, the daily newspaper in the city of Dortmund, to get residents to enter information on canceled classes in schools.

Jeff IsraelyApril 24, 2017

Jeff Israely: What comes next in the Uberization of the news business?

“Ours is a system that neither Adam Smith nor Karl Marx — not even Travis Kalanick — can figure out for us.”

Jeff IsraelyApril 24, 2017

O que se segue à “uberização” da indústria das notícias?

Temos um sistema que nem Adam Smith, nem Karl Marx – nem sequer Travis Kalanick – podem compreender por nós.

What are the best practices for crowdsourcing the reporting process?

Three New Jersey newsrooms start using Hearken, a platform that lets audiences choose reporting topics

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 7, 2015

243 people disappeared on a ship in the Mediterranean; a new project from Medium aims to find them

Medium is launching an ambitious project to locate the passengers of a boat that disappeared in the Mediterranean Sea.

Shan WangAugust 20, 2015

A Spanish-language website is working to document killings of undocumented immigrants

EncuentrosMortales.org, the counterpart to the English-language FatalEncounters.org, wants to provide a comprehensive national database of undocumented immigrants killed through interactions with law enforcement.

Mary HamiltonJune 17, 2015

Crowdsourcing The Counted: How The Guardian aims to put the audience at the heart of its journalism

How do you build an audience for a project tracking Americans killed by police? For The Guardian U.S.’ audience team, it’s a mix of community building, technology, and focused attention.

John WihbeyMay 30, 2014

What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: The urge for a webby explanation for world events, and the FT’s digital shift

Crowdsourcing tiny snippets of time, building the news around analytics, and how Twitter is weird during big news events: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.

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