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Mapping has also emerged as an effective way of covering the news, noted Patrick Meier co-founder of the International Network of Crisis Mappers at Ushahidi, mentioning Syria Tracker, a...
The project recently launched a crowdfunding page on Kickstarter to raise some financial support for the audio interview archive project, and is on a mission to collect 30 interviews within 30...
The Kickstarter campaign, “Libyan Youth in Revolution,” aims to raise $30,000 in one month. That money will go to Anderson’s bare necessities like food, shelter and protection as she ventures into...
It’s time journalists stopped treating crowdsourcing as the enemy. Crowdsourced content is not meant to rival the New York Times. It’s a high volume, low cost writing model: a fast-growing...
Rob Pegoraro, an Arlington, Va.-based journalist, says- although he doesn’t use it specifically for developing sources or reporting stories, he sees Quora as “a way to come across interesting...
Citizen journalists are providing a valuable service to their communities. They are relentlessly searching for the truth by preserving liberty and democracy. They are doing all of this without...
Facebook's New York-based journalism programme manager Vadim Lavrusik shares the following tips on how journalists can best make use of the platform: Crowdsource your community Facebook...
Crowdfunding will let small investors get stock in small companies. But offering equity is not the only way to crowdfund under the new JOBS Act. The new act may also enable microlending, according...
The number of journalists who said they felt social media improved their productivity fell from 49 per cent in 2011 to 39 per cent in 2012. At the same time, the percentage of those who disagreed...
Here are some of the best communities for writers and journalists are as follows: Quora Co-founded by former Facebookers Adam D’Angelo and Charlie Cheever in 2010, Quora users can upvote or...
Lisa Hrabluk is thinking about a sort of crowdsourcing solution that would serve as a sort of online market in which various organizations can post jobs that journalists would bid for. But the key...
There's no doubt that crowdsourcing takes the news media into different level but in certain kinds of reporting, professional journalists cannot be replaced by machines or crowdsourcing. It...
The oft-heard phrase, "We’re all citizen journalists, now," may not be empirically true, but there’s some evidence to support the notion. Many major news stories hinge on media grabbed...
45. National Infographic, by Juan Velasco This is another blog that has been brought to our attention by the crowdsourcing exercise – by Juan Velasco, art director of National Geographic magazine,...
Among all the South by Southwest Interactive panels, a topic on crowdsourcing is included: Better Crowdsourcing: Lessons Learned From the3six5 Project If you want to learn more about how to...
Longshot Magazine accepts submissions from content creators around the world: writers, photographers, illustrators, proofreaders, baristas, and “especially bartenders,” says the magazine’s about...
The resulting article, written with tongue firmly in cheek is an excellent example of the dangers of “content engineering.” Unlike, say, a banking program, content is difficult to engineer. If...
As Managing Editor Michelle Rogers explained in her blog post about the coverage: As a group of weekly publications in print, it has been an ongoing challenge to get our audience to realize we’re...
Vyclone lets you upload a clip to its servers, where other users can throw their own shots into the mix to create a crowdsourced movie encompassing, literally, different points-of-view.
To fund the tours and campaigns around the video and political participation they've set up a crowd-funding campaign to raise 12,000 USD. They have until July 11th to reach their financial...
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