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Explore 440 projects in the Journalism category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

Technology that improves journalists' ability to hold power to account and communicate ideas to and with the public in democracies.

440 projects

RJI Interactive Map of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) Laws

The Reynolds Journalism Institute's up-to-date guide to anti-SLAPP laws โ€” which target frivolous lawsuits that attempt to impede free speech โ€” is now available as an interactive map.

Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
2026

chicago.com

Local guides, community conversation, and news from every Chicago newsroom, gathered in one place.

Chicago, IL
2026

Emergency Mode for News

Emergency Mode for News is a free disaster-preparedness resource hub that gives U.S. journalists and newsrooms checklists, templates, training and publishing tools for before, during and after climate disasters.

2026

Context Window

Context Window is a newsletter from The Lenfest Institute for Journalism that shares AI projects, lessons and ready-to-use tools with local news organizations across the United States.

Philadelphia
2026

PiRogue Tool Suite (PTS) Documentation

PiRogue Tool Suite documentation is an open-source documentation repository that builds the Docusaurus website explaining the PiRogue Tool Suite, a mobile forensics and network-traffic analysis toolkit.

2026

The Reckoning Project

The Reckoning Project was founded by acclaimed war correspondent and academic Janine di Giovanni and disinformation expert Peter Pomerantsev in response to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Falls Church, United States of America ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
2026

์‰ฌ์šด์‹ ๋ฌธ (Easy Newspaper)

Media Today plans to create an 'Easy Newspaper' that people with developmental disabilities can read, in collaboration with the social enterprise Sosohansotong, which produces easy-to-understand information.

Seoul
2026

Suwali

Suwali is a messaging-based question-answering platform from the nonprofit Meedan that lets newsrooms and civil-society groups answer audience questions with their own trusted information over chat channels.

2026

ShadowFinder

A tool to estimate the points on the Earth's surface where a shadow of a particular length could occur, for geolocation purposes.

2026