Posts Tagged ‘Tony Maddox’

CNN Takes On Slavery, Human Trafficking with The CNN Freedom Project: Ending Modern-Day Slavery

CNN.com launched the Freedom Project blog as the online base for CNN’s The CNN Freedom Project: Ending Modern-Day Slavery, a project that will run throughout 2011 on the cable network and Web site, aimed at detailing modern-day slavery, stopping the trading and exploitation of humans, and hearing from the victims.

Regular features on the blog will include: The Number, a weekly graphic examining the numbers related to human trafficking; Solutions, success stories about people and nations fighting the problem; iReport Challenge, giving members of user-generated news community CNN iReport assignments to allow them to participate in the discussion; and data visualizations demonstrating the scope of the problem, local and global aspects, and the lack of consistent numbers.

All content from the Freedom Project blog will also be available via CNN Mobile, and the project has a Twitter account and a Facebook page.

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Royal Television Society Recognizes CNN’s South Africa 2010: Twitter Buzz

CNN‘s South Africa 2010: Twitter Buzz received an award in the category of Innovative News at the United Kingdom’s Royal Television Society Awards.

South Africa 2010: Twitter Buzz enabled fans following FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa to monitor and visualize Twitter activity, providing an interactive visualization of how many Tweets per minute each topic generated, as well as photos representing soccer topics generating the most buzz, which changed sizes as the number of related Tweets fluctuated. Categories included players, teams, and topics, and fans were able to browse back through an archive of Tweets from the past 24 hours.

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