Transparent Journalism
Tides Center
- Date Awarded
- 03/10/08
- Amount
- $350,000
- Grant Period
- 03/10/08 to 07/31/10
- Focus Area
- Journalism & Media Innovation
- Initiative
- Knight News Challenge
Grantee Contact
- San Francisco, CA
- www.tides.org
Featured Media
To help search engines better distinguish between well-reported journalism and everything else on the Internet
With the copious amounts of information – and misinformation – on the Internet, the public needs more help finding fair, accurate and contextual news. This project will create a system to do just that. The plan: to design a way for content creators to add information on their sources to their reports, as a form of “source tagging.” For instance, a reporter could note that an article was based on personal observations, interviews with eyewitnesses or specific, original documents. Filters would then use this data - the “story behind the story” - to help find high-quality articles. A reader searching the phrase “Pakistan riots” for example, might find 9,000 articles. But filtering by “eyewitness accounts” would yield a more selective list. Berners-Lee, Moore and the Web Science Research Initiative are working with the BBC and Reuters on how to best integrate the tagging into journalists’ normal workflow.
Knight Foundation