MediaBugs
Tides Center
- Date Awarded
- 07/01/09
- Amount
- $335,000
- Grant Period
- 07/01/09 to 12/31/11
- Focus Area
- Journalism & Media Innovation
- Initiative
- Knight News Challenge
Grantee Contact
- San Francisco, CA
- www.tides.org
Featured Media
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To develop a service to allow users to better report, track and resolve errors, issues and problems in news coverage
All journalists make mistakes, but they sometimes view admitting errors as a mark of shame. MediaBugs aims to change this climate, by promoting transparency and providing recognition for those who admit and fix their mistakes. MediaBugs will create a public test web site in a U.S. city for people to report errors in any news report – online or off-line. Comments will be tracked to see if they create a conversation between the reporter and the error submitter, and then show whether corrections or changes resulted. Based on a system that technology teams use when releasing software, this aggregation process will display trends in errors and show which news organizations are responsible to public questions and comments.
Knight Foundation