Berkman Launches Media Cloud

Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, teamed help from Thomson Reuters, has launched Media Cloud to track news content comprehensively with free, open and flexible research tools. The objective is to provide a means to map the interaction between mainstream media, citizen media and blogs to give a more accurate and comprehensive view of how people influence, shape and interact with the news. Great idea.

Ethan Zuckerman of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society discusses the new Media Cloud project. Hat tip to Sunlight Foundation Blog, Berkman’s New Media Cloud. [JH]