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The app, called Tackable, enables people to share photographs tagged with their location and gives editors a way to solicit photos in connection with news events and assignments.
Serving nearly 100 million users, LinkedIn is attempting to harness the power of its growing user base to channel their interests, subject areas and needs, resulting in a front page news service...
Small World News focuses on developing the capacity of citizens to engage with the international community in crisis areas and conflict zones. Small World News is about empowering global...
The “citizen journalism” portion of the app is based around what are called “gigs,” which are requests for information about specific topics or news events. Journalists from the newspapers...
The Guardian's social news platform, nOtice, is free for users (“there’s no cost to browse around, post news or events or even place a small ad. nothing, zero, zilch”) and ad-supported....
Investigative journalism is open to being crowdsourced for both funding – through sites such as Spot.us – and for collecting data and reporting. The crowd is also blogging, along with expert...
What the Guardian's experiment is designed to tap into is "that wisdom-of-crowds thing," London-based national news editor Dan Roberts says. "Good ideas bubble up that...
NewsiT harnesses the power of the ‘crowd’ to create, collaborate and share news and information on smart-phones, the web and tablets. Anyone can join assignments based on common interests and...
Two of the Knight News Challenge winners focus specifically on video: *Watchup –- Founded by Adriano Farano,a former Knight Fellow at Stanford University and founder of a European “crowdsourced...
The other phenomenon is the crowdsourcing of information gathering that occurred with the Colorado timeline, something that wouldn’t be possible without the community-based approach that Reddit...
Our team is not just looking at traditional news sources, but updates from observers at the scene who are snapping photos with their phones and sending them out on Twitter. And we’re not only...
“Alive.in” is a project launched by international news startup Small World News. The startup’s team is using a group of Arabic translators to crowdsource the translation of the real-time messages...
Open APIs alone aren’t the solution to the news industry’s R&D problem, nor will they somehow “fix” a broken business model. However, the open API phenomenon is an important step toward a form...
News organisations need to be more digitally engaged with their audiences ... but where is the economic value? Online organisations will soon realise there is little money to be made in...
This kind of distributed reporting has taken the world of British journalism by storm lately, and The Guardian has lead the charge. A primary example is The Guardian's "Investigate your...
From the Post and Courier of Charleston, S.C. to the Bulletin of South Washington County, Minn., news organizations nationwide are asking readers to share their memories of that day, when...
They’re working with companies out there that are sponsoring badges to get people to write on local news that’s happening in their areas. They’re trying to become an official place for people to...
The first big Occupy Wall Street ad buy came thanks to 168 people donating money online through a crowd-sourcing website called Loudsauce, which facilitates small donations of less than $100. Two...
Clipsource received roughly 430 000 EUR (4 million SEK) of funding from Almi Invest and a group of angel investors this past August. The company will use these funds to further develop the...
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