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NewsTrust is now part of The Poynter Institute 17 Jun 2012 | 01:09 am
I am happy to announce that NewsTrust is now part of The Poynter Institute, a respected journalism training organization based in Florida. The Poynter Institute has been a NewsTrust partner since 2009...
Next steps for NewsTrust 12 Jan 2012 | 01:38 pm
Because of your interest in NewsTrust, I would like to give you an update on next steps for our social news network. After six years building NewsTrust into a valuable online resource, the time has c...
Our new Truthsquad pilot 24 Sep 2011 | 05:17 am
This week, we are excited to announce a new pilot for Truthsquad, the pro-am fact-checking network we are developing with the Center for Public Integrity. As stated in our last update on this blog, we...
Truthsquad Update 15 Sep 2011 | 12:06 pm
This week, we would like to give you a quick update on Truthsquad, the pro-am fact-checking network we are developing with the Center for Public Integrity. We spent the summer fundraising, signing up ...
Our final report on NewsTrust Baltimore 8 Sep 2011 | 10:43 am
Here is our final report on NewsTrust Baltimore, our local news experiment. In this last report, we summarize our activities on this multifaceted project and share some of our key findings about Balti...
NewsTrust goes open source 27 Aug 2011 | 11:07 am
Today, we're excited to announce that we are open sourcing the code for NewsTrust.net, our social news platform. We have just published that code on Github, under the name SocialNews. It runs on the p...
Onward! 18 Aug 2011 | 07:27 am
Last year, a mutual friend introduced me to Jon Mitchell, who was looking for advice on how to get into journalism, having recently graduated from Brown University. In a matter of weeks after our call...
Mapping Baltimore’s news ecosystem 21 Jul 2011 | 05:19 am
As the NewsTrust Baltimore pilot winds down at the end of July 2011, we are publishing a series of reports about our local news experiment. For the past six months, we have provided a free online serv...
A new direction for NewsTrust 13 Jul 2011 | 04:52 am
NewsTrust will be taking a new direction this month, to adapt in a rapidly changing news media landscape. To fulfill our mission more effectively, we will pivot our nonprofit organization from a stand...
Editorial report: Finding good journalism in Baltimore 7 Jul 2011 | 05:57 am
This blog post about our NewsTrust Baltimore local news experiment was written by NewsTrust Baltimore editor Mary Hartney and originally published on our Baltimore blog on July 6, 2011. It is republis...
