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.
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 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.