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San Francisco Chronicle

577 US sites publishing hNews news

October 12, 2010   |   Posted by Martin Moore

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The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865. It is the only daily broadsheet newspaper in San Francisco – and is published online at SFgate.com. In the 1960s Paul Avery was a police reporter at the Chronicle when he started [...]

Library of Alexandria

How Metadata Can Eliminate the Need for Pay Walls

September 13, 2010   |   Posted by Martin Moore

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This piece I wrote was first published on PBS Mediashift on 18th August 2010, and subsequently at j-source.ca on 31st August 2010 You have to admire his chutzpah. Rupert Murdoch, the so-called nemesis of public interest news, is now being [...]

News Innovation Unconference

July 14, 2010   |   Posted by Media Standards Trust

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The MST – with NESTA and the Web Science Research Initiative (now Web Science Trust) – organised a news innovation unconference to mark the launch of the hNews microformat. A number of journalists, developers, academics and thinkers attended and presented [...]

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2009 Year in Review

December 16, 2009   |   Posted by Media Standards Trust

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During 2009 the Media Standards Trust made considerable progress in promoting a more accountable and transparent news media, and in fostering quality journalism. In February we published ‘A More Accountable Press’ – the first part of our review of press [...]

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MST, AP propose news microformat

July 10, 2009   |   Posted by Media Standards Trust

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The Media Standards Trust has today (Friday 10 July) called on news organisations to adopt consistent news formats for online content. The call comes as The Associated Press and the Media Standards Trust launch a new proposed news microformat. The [...]

Media Standards Trust & WSRI win Knight Foundation Award

May 14, 2008   |   Posted by Media Standards Trust

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We are very pleased to report that the Media Standards Trust and the Web Science Research Initiative have just won a Knight Foundation Award for their transparency initiative. The awards – for $350,000 – will go towards the development of [...]

Shiny New Website

January 18, 2008   |   Posted by Media Standards Trust

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We have just launched the new Media Standards Trust website. The new site has all the resources provided by the old one – the access to media research, the news about news feeds, the links, the director’s blog. But it [...]

MST news initiative receives major grant from MacArthur Foundation

October 1, 2007   |   Posted by Media Standards Trust

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The MacArthur Foundation – famed for its ‘genius grants’ – has just awarded a grant of $350,000 to the Media Standards Trust and the Web Science Research Initiative to develop their plans for authenticating news on the web. The plans [...]


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