What have you read this week? And what did you miss? Are you getting the coverage of local, international, political, and sports stories you want or need?

The Center for Civic Media, under the leadership of Ethan Zuckerman, is embarking on a project to build a media tracking platform to empower the individual, and news providers themselves, to see what they’re getting and what they’re missing in their daily consumption and production of media.

Press:

• A Nutrition Label for the News, WGBH
• MIT researchers aim to create ‘nutritional label for your news diet,’ Poynter
• Ethan Zuckerman wants you to eat your (news) vegetables — or at least have better information, Nieman Journalism Lab
• What’s in your Media Diet? Event video on MIT Tech TV

Further reading:

• Background on the project
• Designing media labels
• Lessons from the world of nutritional labeling

Team: