Open-source Weave liberates data for journalists, citizens
Data nerds from government and academia gathered Friday at Northeastern University to show off the latest version of Weave, an open-source, web-based platform designed to visualize "any available data by anyone for any purpose." The software has a lot of potential for journalists.
Public Laboratory: Don’t Just Report Science, Do It!
MediaShift's science journalism coverage is sponsored by the Columbia Journalism School, which offers an innovative specialized M.A. for experienced journalists who want to cover science, business, arts or politics in a sophisticated, nu...
Google Talk and Hangouts close to go native in Chrome
Chrome will soon feature an open-source and open-codec implementation of Google Talk and Google+ Hangouts voice and video chat, thanks to the WebRTC framework the company open-sourced earlier this year. This implementation will replace the proprietary plugin that's currently bundled with Chrome.
What newsrooms can learn from open-source and maker culture
“Newsosaur” blogger and media consultant Alan Mutter some time ago suggested that journalism has become a lot more like Silicon Valley. Newspapers are too risk-averse, he said, and so they “need some fresh DNA that will make them think and act more like techies and less like, well, newspaper people.” But Silicon Valley isn't what...
Transparency, iteration, standards: Knight-Mozilla’s learning lab offers journalism lessons of open source
This spring, the Knight Foundation and Mozilla took the premise of hacks and hackers collaboration and pushed it a step further, creating a contest to encourage journalists, developers, programmers, and anyone else so inclined to put together ideas to innovate news. Informally called “MoJo,” the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership has been run as a challenge,...
VideoLAN to go after copycat VLC for Android apps
Users that search for VLC on the Android Market get to see a whole bunch of apps that kind of look like the popular open-source video player, despite the fact that VLC for Android hasn't been released yet. The foundation behind VLC wants to change that.
VideoLAN to go after copycat VLC for Android apps
Users that search for VLC on the Android Market get to see a whole bunch of apps that kind of look like the popular open-source video player, despite the fact that VLC for Android hasn't been released yet. The foundation behind VLC wants to change that.
VideoLAN to go after copycat VLC for Android apps
Users that search for VLC on the Android Market get to see a whole bunch of apps that kind of look like the popular open-source video player, despite the fact that VLC for Android hasn't been released yet. The foundation behind VLC wants to change that.
VideoLAN to go after copycat VLC for Android apps
Users that search for VLC on the Android Market get to see a whole bunch of apps that kind of look like the popular open-source video player, despite the fact that VLC for Android hasn't been released yet. The foundation behind VLC wants to change that.
VideoLAN to go after copycat VLC for Android apps
Users that search for VLC on the Android Market get to see a whole bunch of apps that kind of look like the popular open-source video player, despite the fact that VLC for Android hasn't been released yet. The foundation behind VLC wants to change that.
Is Non-Profit Journalism A Safeguard for Press Freedom?
WASHINGTON, DC -- Since May 3, 1991, World Press Freedom Day has been celebrated worldwide annually to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press and remind governments of their duty to respect it. Marking the 20th anniver...
