Assignment Zero Tests Pro-Am Journalism

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday March 15, 2007 @12:11AM from the should-you-choose-to-accept-it dept.

Jay Rosen writes "Assignment Zero is a pro-am, open-platform reporting project. The investigation: crowd sourcing and peer production are a social trend growing well beyond tech. Why is this happening? Partners: NewAssignment.Net and Wired.com, with Newsvine. From the Wired essay: 'We're trying to figure something out here. Can large groups of widely scattered people, working together voluntarily on the net, report on something happening in their world right now, and by dividing the work wisely tell the story more completely, while hitting high standards in truth, accuracy and free expression?' Wired.com: 'We want out readers and our sources to be one and the same. We think it will make for better journalism.'"

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Wired has nowhere to go but up by xxxJonBoyxxx · 2007-03-15 00:21 · Score: 0, Troll

Wired.com: 'We want out readers and our sources to be one and the same. We think it will make for better journalism.'"

No kidding. If you've ever been subjected to the "journalism" in Wired, you know they have nowhere to go but up. Whatever helps Wired, whether its "crowd sources" or monkeys and typewriters, is OK by me.