We know good coverage when we see it: the LR pals over at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard (enough with the “cah” jokes, please) have been providing great, in-depth reporting on the winners of the Knight News Challenge. Today, they provide a look at Go Map Riga, winner of a $250,000 grant. What is Go Map Riga?
“Imagine a tool that pulls in a variety of content and plots it where it happened — a news story, a tweet, or an idea for a project. It doesn’t matter what it is. A user can also directly post a video, a photo, or text. Then community members can discuss the item within the context of the interactive map.”
Nieman has also covered two public radio winners, a collaborative video site, a local news data visualization project, a digital news cartooning project, and a company that wants to make building local news wikis simple. We’re sure there’s more to come, and we strongly recommending checking it out.
And here’s our earlier coverage on the Knight winners.
