Crimes committed by American corporations
University of Virginia School of Law has launched the Corporate Prosecutions Registry. It offers free access to detailed information about every federal organizational prosecution since 2001, as well as deferred and non-prosecution agreements with organizations since 1990. It is possible to browse by type of crime – fraud, money laundering, anti-trust, workplace safety, bribery – […]
Freedom to Marry, Oral History Collection
Free access to this important collection from the University of California Berkeley The Bancroft Library’s Oral History Center. It comprises 23 oral history interviews with key figures organizing the right of same sex couples to marry in the USA. They include focus on changing attitudes, organization of campaigns and the role of LGBT activists in […]
How do the media create and spreads stories?
An interesting open-source site is Media Cloud. This is a joint project by the MIT Center for Civic Media and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. It gives access to data which examines how stories arise and are followed in the media. See these case studies on Understanding ‘Teen Pregnancy’ […]
Documenting Hate
A recent new project supported by Propublica, US media and human rights organisations including University of Miami School of Communication, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law, Texas State University School of Journalism and Mass Communication. It is building up an accurate, verifiable database of reports of specific hate […]
Mapping Early American Elections Project
Just launched this major project funded by National Endowment for the Humanities which will provide free access to visualisations on a state level of how Americans voted for their legislators, 1787–1825. Follow the progress on their blog. It will be building on the electoral data already available from the New Nation votes project
Women in Congress, 1917-2017
Free access to this reference book from the Library of Congress. It includes essays and statistics designed for the general public which trace the history of women’s representation in the US parliamentary system.
Do young people trust the news?
Fascinating report from the Knight Foundation which focusses on findings from qualitative research with 52 teenagers and young adults in three U.S. cities: Philadelphia, Chicago, and Charlotte, North Carolina. It shows an increasing mistrust of the media and a reliance on the use of mobile technology. In the UK Ofcom has an annual news consumption […]
Secret documents online
The new CIA Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Electronic Reading Room can be found at https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/ The CREST database resources of declassified CIA documents and papers were finally released onto the web after a pressure group sued the CIA Papers are over 25 years old. They include the infamous Stargate papers many relating to sightings […]
Trump’s inauguration – protests
See the website of the Womens March on London 2017 which has details on the global movement. There is also a statement about it on the Womens Equality Party website An interesting initiative is We the people which is a crowd-sourced project backed by artist Shepard Fairey. The initiative is seeking to raise funds to […]
Trump’s inauguration
On inauguration day The Guardian news is experimenting with a number of live news features. See the first filmed inauguration in 1901 via the Library of Congress website. And the draft of his speech with amendments!
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