Open Gender Tracking Project
Bocoup LLC
- Date Awarded
- 11/30/12
- Amount
- $30,000
- Grant Period
- 11/30/12 to 05/31/13
- Focus Area
- Journalism & Media Innovation
- Initiative
- Knight Prototype Fund
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Grantee Contact
- Boston, MA
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To build software that will track the gender balance in published news stories
Raising awareness of gender balance in the media by creating a deployable service newsrooms and other content providers can use to evaluate the gender split of both writers and voices in stories. Funding will help build the service as well as conduct two case studies with The Boston Globe and Global Voices.
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