Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
25 June 2020
San Quentin, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
San Quentin Prison's media created by the men incarcerated there have gone beyond rehabilitation of individuals to a broader mission of promoting criminal justice policy reform by reframing the narrative about those w...
24 June 2020
Woodlynne, New Jersey, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
New Jersey’s responses to police misconduct offer stark lessons in how certain failures can allow troubled officers to hop from job to job undetected. The state lacks a central database of police misconduct and remain...
17 June 2020
Hawaii, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The groundswell for greater accountability in police shootings has barely caused a ripple in Hawaii, where the state’s Law Enforcement Officer Independent Review board has finished only one case in its first three yea...
The Correspondent
Patrick Chalmers
10 June 2020
Kenya
Text
Over 3000 Words
Communities around the world are increasing citizen participation in political decision-making in innovative ways. Participatory budgets allow locals to decide how cities spend money and in some Kenyan cities this has...
4 June 2020
New Jersey, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Citizen watchdogs can hold local police accountable by using the tactics of investigative reporters that have successfully exposed systemic problems and sparked reforms. One reporter shares five approaches he’s used t...
26 May 2020
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Princeton University's Empirical Studies of Conflict Project launched a tracking effort to document COVID-19 disinformation worldwide. Created by a network of students tapping into fact-checking sites and other social...
Ventures Africa
Hadassah Egbedi
18 May 2020
Nigeria
Text
Over 3000 Words
Stand To End Rape (STER) is a youth-led Nigerian NGO that works with sexual and gender abuse survivors by providing services, including psychosocial support and advocacy to address cultural norms of victim-blaming, sh...
13 May 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Philadelphia, a project called Fill the Walls With Hope has come together, pairing public art with hyper-local information. The initiative, which has collaborated with various local organizations, came together as ...
10 May 2020
South Korea
Broadcast TV Programs
Under 3 Minutes
South Korea has effectively crushed the curve in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic by using extensive tracking and tracing on its citizens. Using a combination of GPS tracking, monitoring CCTV footage, and even ...
The Salt Lake Tribune
Heather May
4 May 2020
Utah, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In an effort to stem drug and substance abuse, Utah's Salt Lake City county is reaching out proactively to parents with courses and parenting programs. By arming parents with the tools to talk with their children and ...
2 May 2020
Maine, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Contact tracing of the novel coronavirus is helping Maine slowly and safely reopen after lockdown by tracking the spread of the virus and mitigating risk of those who may have been exposed. In order to effectively con...
1 May 2020
Vietnam
Text
800-1500 Words
Although Vietnam had a limited ability to treat coronavirus patients due to lack of treatment infrastructures, the country has been able to keep their case count low by implementing aggressive testing, contact tracing...
The New York Times
Richard Parker
1 May 2020
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
As New Mexico's former state health secretary, Governor Lujan Grisham did not waste any time implementing aggressive and restrictive measures in the state to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. Acutely aware that th...
26 April 2020
Seattle, Washington, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In responding to the coronavirus outbreak, Washington State stands in direct contrast to New York in how local governments responded. While New York relied on direction from politicians, Washington State looked to pub...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Rory Linnane
Daphne Chen
24 April 2020
West Allis, Wisconsin, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
After the coronavirus outbreak devastated a nursing home in Wisconsin unbeknownst to the residents' family members and the public, advocates and lawmakers called for more transparency from the facility. The agency, jo...
23 April 2020
South Korea
Video
5-15 Minutes
South Korea took early and aggressive measures to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic, and the country has now been able to successfully declare that they've flattened the curve of reported cases. The combined strategy ...
Business Insider
Hiatt Woods
23 April 2020
Singapore
Video
5-15 Minutes
When it comes to containing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many experts point to contact tracing, in which disease detectives track and monitor the interactions and movements of known infected people, as the key...
20 April 2020
Jerusalem, Israel
Text
800-1500 Words
The use of mobile phone technology can aid in contact tracing and the collection of public health data. In Israel, the government’s use of GPS phone locations to trace cases of COVID-19 raised scrutiny regarding priva...
20 April 2020
Douglas County, Nebraska, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Douglas County in Nebraska is so far the only county to record the race and ethnicity of anyone who tests positive for COVID-19, and that's due in large part to how the Douglas County Health Department has been conduc...
20 April 2020
Guatemala
Text
800-1500 Words
The group, Promoters of Migrant Liberation, provides translation of indigenous Guatemalan, Maya, Mexican, and Afro-Caribbean languages for migrants in US detention centers. They help translate right from detention, th...
Anchorage Daily News
Michelle Theriault Boots
17 April 2020
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In an effort to contain the coronavirus, Alaska nurses are stepping in as "contact tracers," as a means of investigating who should be quarantined or tested. The initiative has been credited for helping keep Alaska's ...
17 April 2020
Seoul, South Korea
Text
Over 3000 Words
In South Korea, the government has launched a program of contact tracing, in which disease detectives track and monitor the interactions and movements of known infected people, which many observers are hailing as the ...
NPR
Michael Sullivan
16 April 2020
Vietnam
Text
Under 800 Words
Vietnam has been praised for their collective response to containing coronavirus which was predicated on early and aggressive action and applying lessons learned from earlier communicable disease outbreaks. Although t...
14 April 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
An online tool called Mighty serves as a “Tripadvisor” for banks, connecting users with publicly-available data on how banks across the United States use their money so that they can make informed decisions when it co...
14 April 2020
Ely, Nevada, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Local radio station, KDSS-FM in Ely, Nevada is filling information needs with crucial COVID-19 related updates. Located in a region with no local TV station and just a once-a-week newspaper, the daily broadcast, which...
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