Eliot Higgins, the investigative blogger also known as Brown Moses, has launched a new project that uses crowdsourced data to track Ukrainian and Russian troop and vehicle movements in real time Read more »
Guardian digital editor and former New York Times staffer Aron Pilhofer says media outlets are making a monumental mistake by ending comments, instead of focusing on how they can use them… Read more »
The news that New Yorker music writer Sasha Frere-Jones has joined the crowdsourced annotation site Genius has highlighted the ambitions of the service, which wants to help experts edit the entire… Read more »
It’s easy to focus on the negatives in media — the mistakes, the downsizing at traditional journalistic outlets, etc. — but there were plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the… Read more »
It’s easy to see the downside of citizen journalism when right-wing bloggers attack rape victims, but those same tools have also been used to expose government secrets and reveal crucial information… Read more »
The New York Times built an in-house crowdsourcing platform called Hive so that readers could help it identify old print ads — and now the paper has open-sourced the software that… Read more »
As I reported earlier today, First Look Media editor Andy Carvin — formerly of National Public Radio — has just launched a new project called Reportedly, which will see a staff… Read more »
News Deeply, a network of topic-specific sites founded by former ABC News foreign correspondent Lara Setrakian, has just launched its latest addition: Ebola Deeply, a site dedicated to coverage of the… Read more »
The New York Times’ research and development lab has launched a new project asking readers for help in identifying old advertisements from its print archive — and the project is the… Read more »
The speed with which several otherwise unconnected Twitter users — on different sides of the country — managed to identify the suspects in a brutal attack on two gay men in… Read more »