OpenCongress brings together official government data with news coverage, blog posts, public comments, and more to give you the real story behind what's happening in Congress. OpenCongress is a free, open-source, not-for-profit, and non-partisan web resource with a mission to make Congress more transparent and to encourage civic engagement. OpenCongress is a joint project of the Participatory Politics Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation.
ACM has a new Web site to complement its flagship print publication Communications of the ACM. The Web site offers exclusive news, opinion, research, information, extensive content from the current issue of Communications, the complete archived issues of the publication, access to searchable content from the ACM Digital Library and from other sources around the Web, and hosts a blog section.
An online news source featuring the latest discoveries in science, engineering, the environment, health, and more from North America's leading research universities.
The Boston Globe's Big Picture blog puts photojournalism front and center. Instead of using images to illustrate a news article, the site makes photographs the main attraction, accompanied only by a brief caption.
a searchable, sortable, ongoing database of digital news outlets across the country. Contains original profiles and extensive data sets on each outlet. CJR plans to continuously add to the database. profiles will include national outlets, but the bulk of the database will eventually be made up of the many local operations..
MemeTracker builds maps of the daily news cycle by analyzing around 900,000 news stories and blog posts per day from 1 million online sources, ranging from mass media to personal blogs. We track the quotes and phrases that appear most frequently over time across this entire online news spectrum. This makes it possible to see how different stories compete for news and blog coverage each day, and how certain stories persist while others fade quickly.
Grist has been dishing out environmental news and commentary with a wry twist since 1999. draw out the real meaning behind green stories, connect big issues like climate change to daily life. users to bring stories through blogs, photos, At Grist, we take our work seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. Grist is based in Seattle, with contributors scattered the world 'round. a nonprofit organization funded by foundation grants, user contributions, and advertising.
a nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, i
The new TRC2 corpus comprises 1,800,370 news stories covering the period from 2008-01-01 00:00:03 to 2009-02-28 23:54:14 or 2,871,075,221 bytes, and is initially made available to participants of the blog track at the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC), to supplement the BLOG08 corpus (that contains results of a large blog crawl carried out at the University of Glasgow), which is the main corpus used at the TREC Blog Track.
Mediagazer, which will focus on the content production and distribution business, organizing topics as wide as journalism, blogging, video production, e-books, and digital distribution technologies. From the same people who created Techmeme memeorandum, WeSmirch, and Ballbug.
GovTrackInsider.com complements GovTrack.us with original and syndicated reporting on what Congress is doing now, what is on its agenda, and what it all means. We've hired a small team of paid freelance reporters to cover congressional committee meetings. We'll also be including syndicated coverage of Congress from the OpenCongress blog, and other sources. Insider is an online newspaper, but one with some unusual pages. For articles on many topics you'll find on the right side a topic dashboard. There you can connect with other readers in a variety of ways.
committed to providing stimulating, original content and presentation, with over 1,500,000 pages covering the vast ideological spectrums of space, science, health, and technology.
iSolon.org's Citizens Assembly Project also reports on citizens assembly developments throughout the world. Reporting on such developments is a joint project with iSolon.org's readers. iSolon.org carefully monitors the print press and blogosphere for reports on citizen assemblies, but it also gets much of its most valuable information from its readers.
Dark Reading is a security dashboard for IT professionals who don’t have the time or the luxury of combing wirefeeds, multiple bug feeds, or vendor Websites to find out what’s new or how well it works.
global news focusing on countries south of the equator and "civil society." Stories produced by the IPS News Service and Columnist Service directly reach about 570 newspapers and magazines subscribers all over the world. The majority of IPS writers and editors come from the South, reporting from their own countries and regions or writing from the North, offering a different perspective on events and processes.
This entirely student-powered wire service generates stories from across the nation every day, including first-rate news, opinion, sports, and entertainment coverage.
We believe that a better news product can be made if it relies more on a visual approach to conveying information. The works of Edward Tufte provides both a key to the successful implementation of this concept as well as criticism of poor or misguided attempts at incorporating graphics in the news.