by Denise Cheng, MIT Center for Civic Media
Rich Gordon and his Northwestern colleagues have had a presence at Block by Block for all three years, and under the banner of Knight News Innovation Lab for the last two. At one of the closing sessions for BxB12, Gordon and several of the Knight Laboratorists presented the progress of some of Knight Lab’s most exciting tools, seeking publishers’ feedback and intent to use.
Seeded with a $4.2 million grant from the Knight Foundation, the lab is a collaboration between Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.
“We develop software that serves the mission of journalism, media and publishing, and/or an informed citizenry,” the slide deck reads, and projects fall into three Continue reading