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ICFJ Knight Roundup: impactAFRICA Launches Contest for Water, Sanitation Reporting

As part of the Knight International Media Innovators blog, the ICFJ Knight team will round up stories focused on how their fellows are making an impact in the field. Find out more about the fellows' projects by clicking here.

Push App Helps Azerbaijan's Meydan TV Go Mobile

Azerbaijan is a pretty terrible country to be a journalist in these days. The Committee to Protect Journalists named it last year as one of the 10 countries iin the world where the media face the most restrictions.

Meydan TV, the last independent news outlet in the country, is trying to do something about that. According to their internal statistics, Meydan TV reached one-sixth of the country's population last month. One-third of every person in Azerbaijan on Facebook has "liked" them.

Washington Post's Emilio Garcia-Ruiz Shares Tips for a Successful News Business Model

The vision of Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is that a news organization has to make its work available free, everywhere. Bezos is urging the publication's journalists to adopt the principles of retail sales that he has learned over the years in running Amazon, America's largest online retailer of practically everything.

ICFJ Knight Roundup: Knight Fellow's Media Party to Return to Miami for Two-day Event

As part of the Knight International Media Innovators blog, the ICFJ Knight team will round up stories focused on how their fellows are making an impact in the field. Find out more about the fellows' projects by clicking here.

ICFJ Knight Fellows Showcase Open Source Newsroom Tools for NICAR 2016 Conference

During their fellowships, the ICFJ Knight Fellows help spur a culture of media innovation and experimentation.

Is Your Physician a Dodgy Doctor? Nigerians Can Now Find Out

Since the beginning of the year, Nigerians can use a simple tool on a major news site to find out if their doctors are licensed practitioners or con artists preying on the sick.

ICFJ Knight Fellows Justin Arenstein and Temi Adeoye have partnered with one of the country’s most popular news sites to make the tool available to millions of Nigerian citizens.

ProPublica Founder Offers Advice For Effective, Fair Investigative Journalism

Given all the trash, half-truths and outright lies published on digital media, people are placing a higher value on news outlets that verify information and demonstrate high ethical standards.

Paul Steiger, founder and executive chairman of ProPublica, tells of a major donor to his online publication who "absolutely hated" an investigative story they had published about a group "near and dear to the donor's heart." Steiger told the donor that the information was verified, and the story was fair.

ICFJ Knight Roundup: Azerbaijani News Gets a 'Push' From New Mobile App

As part of the Knight International Media Innovators blog, the ICFJ Knight team will round up stories focused on how their fellows are making an impact in the field. Find out more about the fellows' projects by clicking here.

What Today's Newsrooms Can do to Spark Innovation For Tomorrow

Back in September, I partnered with The Express Tribune, a leading English-language newspaper in Karachi, Pakistan, as part of my ICFJ Knight Fellowship to work on news innovation. The main focus was working with the Tribune Labs team and helping them build up their capacity in order to work on visual and interactive content on their own, without the need for a developer.

To start off, we brought a developer on board as an Innovation Fellow. Our first task was to help Labs with a system where they could develop interactive features on their own and in the shortest possible time.

Spearhead Media Transformation as Code for Nigeria's News Innovation Fellow

Code for Nigeria is looking for a digital journalist and strategist to join our CitizenLab in Lagos.

The News Innovation Fellow will implement and manage our journalistic projects and showcase events.