NPR experiments with local news headlines on national home page
NPR People who visit NPR.org in 13 cities around the country will see local news…
March 22, 2012
Geotagging and geodata
Nonprofit news sites won’t have to pay to use Google Maps API
Nieman Journalism Lab | Google Geo Developers Blog Google has responded to concerns about its…
November 22, 2011
News developers worried about new cost to use Google Maps
ProgrammableWeb | Wired.com | ReadWriteWeb If the developers in your newsroom seem unusually stressed this…
October 28, 2011
Data visualization ‘on another level’ compared to a few years ago
Forbes Wilson Andrews, The Washington Post's information designer, discusses his data visualizations and the progress…
August 31, 2011
Knight News Challenge gives $1.5 million to projects that filter, examine data
The Knight Foundation is directing almost a third of its $4.7 million in News Challenge…
June 22, 2011
Holovaty: EveryBlock’s new community focus will ‘help you make your block a better place’
Monday afternoon, EveryBlock announced a major shift in focus, from a geographically-based, hyperlocal news site…
March 21, 2011
News Organizations Publish WikiLeaks Documents With Caution, Innovation
Elusive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is scheduled to appear in London on Monday with Daniel…
October 24, 2010
4 Digital Tools to Improve Your Government Coverage
Monday and Tuesday, about 40 journalists are gathering at Poynter to learn how they can…
August 2, 2010
Updated augmented reality browser aggregates location-based information
MobileCrunchThe augmented-reality company Layar announced a new version of its browser that will allow Android…
June 2, 2010
Crisis Commons project enables public to report oil spill info from their phones
Crisis CommonsOil Reporter, a new project from Crisis Commons, is a data initiative that seeks…
May 26, 2010
Using augmented reality to track stimulus spending
Texas WatchdogJennifer Peebles notes that Sunlight Labs has geotagged many of the projects funded by…
May 21, 2010
Google rolls out enhanced location-based services
Mobile BeatGoogle announced a new application programming interface (API) for its geographic location service this…
May 20, 2010
Brady: New D.C. Site to Rely on 3 Things for Delivering News on Every Block
People who visit Allbritton Communications' still-unnamed metro D.C. news site when it launches in June…
April 15, 2010
What 15 Journalists Took Home from South by Southwest
I can't find "Austin hangover" on Urban Dictionary, so I'll define the term myself: the…
March 17, 2010
Geo-fencing delivers targeted mobile ads
New York TimesText messages are the latest mobile technology to get updated with a geo-targeted…
February 23, 2010
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