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NewsIt crowdsources DC subway investigation

Posted by Andrew Nachison on May 26, 2011 in Innovation, Journalism, Pitch It | 4 comments

If you live in Washington, DC, and can offer a little bit of your time, sign up and check out the project details. You can go down into the subway to see how long it takes to escape, or assist with mapping data and other text, photo and video tasks. NewsIt won our 2010 PitchIt Challenge, and we've been advising the project since then.

Let’s keep the power in our hands. Join us on Wed., April 6 in NYC. This time it’s personal.

Posted by Dale Peskin on Mar 29, 2011 in Noted, We Media NYC | 19 comments

Click Here for Live Coverage For all the world-changing of recent weeks you’d think there were more important matters to...

Introducing Clear Health Costs

Posted by We Media on Mar 28, 2011 in Pitch It | 7 comments

Clear Health Costs will offer consumer-friendly information about the costs of health care services and products.

Introducing Fast Cast

Posted by We Media on Mar 28, 2011 in Pitch It | 8 comments

FastCast delivers a local, personalized, video newscast straight to mobile.

Introducing Neighborhood Pages

Posted by We Media on Mar 25, 2011 in Pitch It | 5 comments

Neighborhood Pages offers affordable, custom Drupal installations to get hyper-local news & community sites up and running, and ongoing support and training to help them succeed.

Introducing NewsWar

Posted by We Media on Mar 25, 2011 in Pitch It | 17 comments

NewsWar is a social media strategy game based on the real world.

Investigate with Twitter

Posted by Martin Belam on Mar 14, 2011 in How To | 0 comments

Six days after Ian Tomlinson’s death at the G20 protests in London, Guardian reporter Paul Lewis had twenty reliable witnesses who could be placed on a map at the time of the incident - and only one of them had come from the traditional journalistic tool of a contact number in his notebook.

The Daily’s iPad debut: It’s Groundhog Day

Posted by Dale Peskin on Feb 3, 2011 in Innovation | 6 comments

Today I watched the movie Groundhog Day and downloaded The Daily on my iPad. Both reminded me how we live the same day over...

Journalism’s fifth stage of grief

Posted by Dale Peskin on Sep 24, 2010 in Creativity, Innovation, Journalism | 2 comments

Will acceptance lead to a brave new world for journalism?

Startups: AssignIt becomes ReportIt

Posted by Melinda Wittstock on Jul 6, 2010 in Founder Chronicles, Pitch It, Startup, We Media Miami 2010 | 0 comments

PitchIt! Challenge winner fine-tunes the details of their next-generation crowd journalism platform.

SeeClickFix in The Guardian

Posted by Andrew Nachison on Jun 15, 2010 in Pitch It | 0 comments

Dan Kennedy wrote for The Guardian a flattering profile of SeeClickFix, one of the 2009 winners of our PitchIt investment challenge. Congratulations CEO Ben Berkowitz and crew - and stay tuned for more PitchIt later this summer.