What If News Challenge

uFeel

amyzerba — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:48:30 +0000

uFeel from Mita Adesanya on Vimeo. uFeel is all about making the news out of how you feel. It uses a plug-in that can be added to an article to ask readers specific questions about their opinions and experiences. When a response is submitted, it goes to the uFeel team who analyses it. By doing …

Hear it Here News

amyzerba — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:42:14 +0000

Hear it Here News is different from any other news organization because it’s word of mouth news over the Internet. Users can submit IHeards, and IHeards are searchable through keywords even if you record your voice. If there are enough of the same IHeards or even an interesting one, reporters from Hear it Here News will …

Pund’It

amyzerba — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:17:30 +0000

http://vimeo.com/40853069 Political news has lost the interest of many in the age group of 18-24, due to lack of appeal. Young adults want entertainment along with their information. That’s where Pund’It comes in. Pun’dIt is aimed to make political-related news concise, and package it with some entertaining commentary from the social media world. The website …

Hey Bill: Making Politics Personal

amyzerba — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:04:54 +0000

Introducing an app that allows you to know how possible laws aka bills will impact your future. The app uses data to rate the law’s impact on you on a scale from 1-10. Hey bill uses simple words and descriptions to explain bills. It also shows a bill’s progress toward becoming a law and gives …

Professionals Exchange

amyzerba — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:35:45 +0000

Professionals Exchange is for employees in the education field who want to create change. It allows like-minded individuals to connect and brainstorm ways they can improve education. Through the Internet, smart phone or bi-monthly magazine, passionate employees can collaborate and find ways to better their school systems. Professionals Exchange is also designed to foster a …

SourceUs: Bringing the community to the Journalists

amyzerba — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:19:28 +0000

We all have that topic that we feel passionate about, that we could spend hours talking about. We all have read an article about a subject that we know really well and said ‘WOW, this person got it all wrong.’ We all want information out there to be right, and we want our voice to …

por•tato: A convenient platform to bring reporters and the community together on stories

azerba — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:23:26 +0000

por•tato is a spin-off content platform that merges with a newspaper’s existing print and online divisions to engage community members in the act of breaking and contributing news. We crowdsource news but still uphold it to the same standards as expected of the journalists who would be writing those stories anyway — except now those …

News Gist: A spinoff mobile pub by journalists and public

azerba — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:54:07 +0000

News Gist is an open source tool that helps newsrooms build stories and information in essential parts for a young adult mobile community. The community can then edit and contribute information. The end result is a news product geared toward an on-the-go young adult audience (ages 18 to 29) — those who want shorter stories, …