Work of a Fellow
Eighteen days in Egypt: Creating a crowd-sourced documentary
Can we tell the story of the Egyptian revolution with the same tools that helped share it with the world in real time?
Inside Pulse, the news app
Pulse founders Ankit Gupta and Akshay Kothari created the visual news reader last spring as students in the Stanford d.school’s Launch Pad class.
A quest to use mobile for citizen reporting
In this short video, Soderberg discusses her project that will allow citizen journalist to report to their local newsroom whats happening in their neighborhood.
My Eureka moment
After 20 amazing years with the news agency as a foreign correspondent, bureau chief and manager, I saw the next phase of my career: A journalist who would advocate for the empowerment of women and girls.
The life of one Knight, so far …
Here’s February knocking on the door and I’m wondering where all my carefully chronicled Knight exploits have gone. So here’s my attempt to sum up what’s happened over the last few weeks at Stanford.
Fellow wins grant for social news game
In this short video, Knight Fellow Seda Muradyan discusses her dream of launching a social news game to encourage citizen journalists in Armenia.
Ideate or die?
Stanford’s d.school urges us to work up some ideas, sketch them out on a few pages and start road-testing them. And if those ideas suck, try some others – after all, the only way to find out what works is to ideate, ideate, ideate.
Start doing, stop thinking
I was sitting at my laptop in the center atrium of Stanford’s design school when I spotted my professor, Bernie Roth. He gave me a serious look: “I hope you’re not thinking.” “No, no, no,” I assured him, shuffling some …
The power of design thinking
Design thinking is a mindset and a process. One that roughly follows the path of Empathy, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test.
Jonathan Zittrain and astroturfing
I’m going to post pages from my sketchbook from some of the lectures I attend this semester. Last night’s was part of the Liberation Technology series and featured Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain discussing the ethical pitfalls and perils of crowdsourced jobs.
Paul Radu: Building a collaboration tool for investigative journalists
Radu (’10) discusses the Investigative Dashboard website, part of an international initiative to encourage collaborative trans-national investigative reporting.
Susanne Rust: Creating a social news game
Rust (’10) discusses HearSay, a social news game that encourages users to curate and share stories.
Teru Kuwayama: Testing new models for covering military operations
Kuwayama (’10) discusses the One-Eight Project, which will combine original reporting from Afghanistan with aggregated reports from diverse sources and use the social web as its distribution medium.
Krissy Clark: Experimenting with location-aware storytelling
Clark (’10) pursued several projects as she explored new forms of storytelling and news-gathering, using mobile phones and location-aware tools.
Lydia Lim: Fighting journalistic self-censorship in Singapore
Lim (’10) discusses ways to empower journalists in Singapore to be stronger and not censor their work.
John Duncan: Delivering personalized news on smart phones
Duncan (’10) discusses Audionewspaper, and app that delivers personalized news to people on their smart phones.
Christine Larson: Helping freelance journalists thrive
Larson (’10) discusses The Future of Freelancing Conference, an unprecedented two-day gathering of freelance journalists, top editors, agents and experts at Stanford.
Geoff McGhee: Documenting emerging uses of data visualization
McGhee (’10) discusses his multimedia project, Journalism in the Age of Data.
Alfonso Cuellar: Equipping journalists covering political transitions
Cuellar (’10) discusses the challenges of covering political transitions.
Nadia Trinidad: Fighting media corruption in the Philippines
Trinidad (’10) discusses her initiative that focuses on the seeds of corruption among journalists in her country: low wages.
Veronica Anderson: Connecting schools and communities
Anderson (’10) discusses ways to virtually connect families, schools and local communities around their common goals for students’ growth and academic success.