To arrive at the results regarding the tone of coverage, PEJ employed computer coding software developed by Crimson Hexagon along with PEJ's traditional media research methods.

The technology for Crimson Hexagon is rooted in an algorithm created by Gary King, a professor at Harvard University's Institute for Quantitative Social Science. (Click here to view the study explaining the algorithm.)

According to Crimson Hexagon, the purpose of computer coding is to "take as data a potentially large set of text documents, of which a small subset is hand coded into an investigator-chosen set of mutually exclusive and exhaustive categories. As output, the methods give approximately unbiased and statistically consistent estimates of the proportion of all documents in each category."

We present a working system for large scale quantitative narrative analysis (QNA) of news corpora, which includes various recent ideas from text mining and pattern analysis in order to solve a problem arising in computational social sciences. The task is that of identifying the key actors in a body of news, and the actions they perform, so that further analysis can be carried out. This step is normally performed by hand and is very labour intensive. We then characterise the actors by: studying their position in the overall network of actors and actions; studying the time series associated with some of their properties; generating scatter plots describing the subject/object bias of each actor; and investigating the types of actions each actor is most associated with. The system is demonstrated on a set of 100,000 articles about crime appeared on the New York Times between 1987 and 2007. As an example, we nd that Men were most commonly responsible for crimes against the person, while Women and Children were most often victims of those crimes.

All you have to do is view source on any nytimes.com article published on or after January, 23 2012. In the HTML you will see new attributes like ‘itemtype’, ‘itemprop’ and ‘itemid’. If you paste an article URL into the Google Rich Snippets tool, you can see a parse of the structured data now embedded into every nytimes.com article,

Knowledge and its articulations are strongly influenced by diversity in, e.g., cultural backgrounds, schools of thought, geographical contexts. Judgements, assessments and opinions, which play a crucial role in many areas of democratic societies, including politics and economics, reflect this diversity in perspective and goals. For the information on the Web (including, e.g., news and blogs) diversity - implied by the ever increasing multitude of information providers - is the reason for diverging viewpoints and conflicts. Time and evolution add a further dimension making diversity an intrinsic and unavoidable property of knowledge.

Welcome to the Time Explorer, an application designed for analyzing how news changes over time. Time Explorer extends upon current time-based systems in many important ways. First, Time Explorer is designed to help users discover how entities such as people and locations associated with a query change over time. Second, by searching on time expressions extracted automatically from text, the application allows the user to explore not only how topics evolved the past, but also how they will continue to evolve in the future.

Meet the Facts is a non-partisan grassroots effort to encourage the NBC television program Meet the Press to incorporate a formal fact-checking procedure for all statements made on air by its guests. That analysis would then be released to the public, preferably within several days of the broadcast.

PolitiFact is a project of the St. Petersburg Times to help you find the truth in American politics. Reporters and editors from the Times fact-check statements by members of Congress, the White House, lobbyists and interest groups and rate them on our Truth-O-Meter.

This WikiFactCheck wiki is for brainstorming and prototyping how a WikiFactCheck project might be created to provide rapid, crowd-sourced fact checking of news events.

The Living Stories project is an experiment in presenting news, one designed specifically for the online environment. The project was developed by Google in collaboration with two of the country's leading newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

As part of Google’s propaganda tour selling their proposed book monopoly, a surprising and seemingly hypocritical theme emerged loud and clear. Straight from the “have cake and eat it too” department, Google’s senior traveling digital book salesman, Dan Clancy, professed his undying commitment to the legislative process as it relates to orphan works.

At a Computer History Museum event last week in Silicon Valley, Clancy suggested that the best way to address the orphan books issue is for Congress to pass legislation, and that Google is not only supportive of this effort, but pushing for it.

Well, we’d like to take Google at their word and hope that they live up to that commitment. And we hope that they do it in a way that is honest and forthright, not self-serving and diversionary. At the Internet Archive, we believe that the right way to gain access to orphan books is to not break the law while you are doing it, and to work through Congress to ensure that the people’s voice in copyright is articulated the way the system was designed to work, not through a private, secret deal that we’re being assured is in our best interests by Google. For the browsing, lending, and vending of digital books, the Archive is seeking an open and competitive market with appropriate safeguards for readers, not a monopoly bookstore created by the biggest online advertising company in the world.

No one elected Google to write copyright law for America. And the Author’s Guild and American Association of Publishers simply do not accurately represent the diverse cross-section of those communities. If Google is really interested in honoring our legislative process, let’s acknowledge that Congress is the path that our government chose to make copyright law and codify its exceptions — instead of crafting secret deals through class action settlements.

To that end, we are calling on Google to petition the court and seek a delay to the October hearing regarding the settlement. Furthermore, we demand that Google publicly demonstrate their leadership and influence in DC to immediately fuel the legislative process on orphan works. That way, they could be part of a truly “non-exclusive” deal by ensuring that all stakeholders are provided the same set of rules from Day 1.

We await Google’s response.

Specs for EventsML-G2.

Specs for NewsML-G2.

List of metadata tags used by the NYT.

Discourse DB is a new kind of site: a database that uses the power and ease-of-use of wiki technology to collect the opinions of the world's journalists and commentators about ongoing political events and issues.

The immigration debate in Congress appeared just once as a top-ten story on Reddit, and not at all on Digg and Del.icio.us. The only story with any real traction on the user-generated sites was the release of the Apple iPhone.

NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead.

I-School professor whose research includes event gazetteers, narrative structures, and news archives.

Most news websites could let you see the stories they published on any particular day but few seem to offer such a view. Browsing events in this way is either deemed unpopular or not something sites want you to do.

It The BBC is well placed to try and weave the explosion of personal content into a comprehensive narrative that mixes the best of the BBC's archived output with the best of the collective memory and 'citizen history' that they can tap into.

The Newseum — a 250,000-square-foot museum of news — will offer visitors an experience that blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits.

For more than a quarter of a century, Andrews McMeel Universal and its divisions, Universal Press Syndicate, Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, uclick, and AMUSE, have helped define American popular culture.

uclick is the largest packager and distributor of comics and word games on the Web.

We gather stories of all shapes and sizes from countless perspectives around the world, and then present them in a rich browseable landscape, helping you make connections you never knew existed.

More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts.

TheNewsRoom is the hub of Voxant’s viral syndication network. Voxant is dedicated to creating an open, global syndication network for rich media news content on the Internet.

The government has also proposed a certification system for Web sites, blog hosters, mobile-phone operators and Internet service providers, identifying them as government-approved sources of information if they adhere to certain rules.

Cofax is a Web-based text and multimedia content management system (CMS). It was designed to simplify the presentation of newspapers on the Web and to expedite real-time Web publication.

Drawing on more than 80 interviews with key figures in the media, FRONTLINE examines the challenges facing the mainstream news media, and the media's reaction.

IPTC news metadata standards converted to OWL.

The MBA RSS Edited Feeds project is intended to create feeds from member blogs by subject, geography, both - or events.

Fake news graphic creator.

NewsCloud is an open source media platform for citizen journalism and the social news network.

The purpose of this survey was to learn how people rate news stories, and to develop reliable online review tools for NewsTrust's news rating service.

NewsTrust is developing an online news rating service to help people identify quality journalism - or "news you can trust."

Be the first with the facts by trying some of these suggestions for uncovering news that others haven't.

Readers have the opportunity to create their own interview clips opposite Post political reporter Dana Milbank.

The Nokia Citizen Journalism Awards are a celebration of the very best in citizen journalism in the UK over the last 12 months.

Topix.net will also use its NewsRank(TM) technology to tag AP-originated content with the identity of the most geographically relevant member publication, for use on its own site, as well as providing that locality information back to the AP.

A deal between 3 - with more than three million customers - and the broadcasters would provide editors with a vast array of clips from which to choose, treating citizen journalists almost like wire service reporters.

Flickr gives you a window into things that you might otherwise never see, from the perspective of people that you might otherwise never encounter.

The study found original reporting in just 5% of blog postings it reviewed.

You can insert your own "news article" into Google News, for thousands or millions to discover and read.

Discussion of how to formally represent the significance of news events to specific entities, for facilitating the machine processing of news.

Web service of the newspaper about public TV and radio in the United States.

OhmyNews and Softbank signed a comprehensive investment contract valued at US$11million on February 22 after both parties agreed to form a strategic partnership in spreading citizen participatory journalism on the global stage.

Camera phones in the grip of the average person (billions of them) will leave no part of the earth undiscovered - and, with luck, entirely new forms of entertainment and enlightenment for all of us to watch and experience.

This article is designed to help publishers and editors understand citizen journalism and how it might be incorporated into their Web sites and legacy media.

The call for this new regulation is being led by the United States government and the European Commission, pushed by highly paid lobbyists for a trade association that includes Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, Real Networks and a handful of other companies.

Online production area where people upload video and help Current decide what to put on TV.

For the first time in its history BBC News is opening its archives to the UK public for a trial period.

We believe content is most valuable when woven into the context of the web with tools like dynamic maps, shared photos, social tags, news feeds and user-generated data.

A premium on-demand broadband video service featuring live streams and access to CNN's archives.

Fans should be able to get their hands on clips of just about any hoops moment they want, and even create their own personalized video reels.

The Internet allows us to see how news is made, as though we were walking through a factory tour, and we can compare the very similar results of a mass production system.

A new user-generated, interactive, multimedia content website in China. "The Chinese Ourmedia."

Digg is a technology news website that employs non-hierarchical editorial control.

With Post Remix, you may use washingtonpost.com RSS feeds to experiment with different applications using washingtonpost.com content.

Both consumers and professional photographers alike can then sell their photos at a price they set through Spy Media, which also offers media outlets the quickest route to the largest pool of uncensored news photos.

WatchBlog is a multiple-editor weblog broken up into three major political affiliations, each with its own blog: the Democrats, the Republicans and the Third Party.

This post concerns an experimental internal-BBC-only project designed to allow users to collectively describe, segment and annotate audio in a Wikipedia-style fashion.

Media, Technology and Society: a multi-disciplinary research project on the media landscape conducted for professionals engaged in strategies, research, thinking, education, policy and philanthropy related to the future of journalism and media.

The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news.

Scoopt is soliciting pictures and videos from people with camera phones, and reselling them to mainstream media outlets.

A custom playlist lets you pick the CBSNews.com videos you want to watch and plays them one right after the other in the order you've chosen.

We publish the most important news from the Web and the blogosphere based on the stories you link to most.