Field Notes: Civic scraping
A needs-driven practice for overcoming commercial, legal, and other inequities helps get people the knowledge they need to navigate their lives a little bit better.
How to process unstructured data
Move from scattered pieces of information to a usable database for identifying patterns, verifying facts, and forming the basis for your reporting
How to do manual collection, web scraping, and crowdsourcing data collection
A hybrid data gathering approach combines automated and manual methods to capture the most comprehensive view of your topic
Our Liechtenstein media model: creator economy meets journalism
In tiny markets like Liechtenstein, subsidies alone won't sustain news. The model must change.
Field Notes: Emotion versus evidence
Emotional activation drives verification behavior, but emotional content is more likely to be misleading or manipulative.
How to map information flows in distorted environments
Build a sustainable and scalable information system for remote data gathering
We're hiring researchers
We seek a Persian-speaking researcher and a technical researcher to help us with audience analysis.
How data gathering practices support service-oriented journalism in restricted contexts
Actively seeking out and structuring information fills voids in public knowledge
Field Notes: Minority linguistic identities and AI
How do we navigate minority- versus majority-language systems in AI models?
Field Notes: Reaching people organically
How do we create serendipitous discovery in a post-platform world?