Wired's Open Source Journalism Project Could Produce Rich Content
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| Well, today, Wired Magazine has announced a project that instead of
| fighting that trend, is using it to generate content. Wired has
| announced an experiment in new, new media called Assignment Zero
| that will investigate the wisdom, creativity, power, and potential
| of crowdsourcing...
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http://media.seekingalpha.com/article/29792
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Yahoo partners with Reuters on eyewitness pictures
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| Yahoo, in partnership with Reuters, is inviting the public to
| contribute eyewitness photos and videos of news events, in the
| latest move to turn spectators into on-the-spot journalists.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6140353.html
Ready for open source journalism?
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| The Internet sites of most newspapers have become part of their
| editorial strategy. Just look at leading papers such as the New York
| Times, the FT, the Wall Street Journal... Their business models is not
| always very clear to me (you can access articles and archive by
| subscription, pay for the particular article you are looking for,
| articles may be free up to a week after their initial publication...)
| but newspapers cannot live without the Web anymore.
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http://www.365questions.org/2006/10/03/ready-for-open-source-journalism/
Editing Horizontally: Thanks to Reuters, NewAssignment.Net Can Hire Someone
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| Today I am announcing at Comment is Free and PressThink that Reuters
| is giving $100,000 to NewAssignment.Net. That's the experiment I plan
| to launch next year with others who think there is something to the idea
| of open source journalism, where people collaborate peer-to-peer in the
| production of editorial goods.
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http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2006/09/20/rts_gft.html
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