Help A Reporter Out, best known as HARO, has been acquired by Vocus, a NASDAQ floated public relations management company.
HARO community composed by 30,000 reporters and bloggers and more that 100,000 small business and public relations professionals has been very active in the news crowdsourcing.
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Crowdsourcing journalism: Vocus acquires Help a Reporter Out (HARO)
Posted by gio 78 days ago (http://vocuspr.vocus.com)Crowdsourcing in editorial: WSJ, how to create a magazine in 48 hours
Posted by gio 105 days ago (http://blogs.wsj.com)
48 hours magazine (http://48hrmag.com/) is an experiment, gone very well actually, of Wall Street Journal. Magazines traditionally take weeks to produce but WSJ put out a call for photos and articles with a 24-hour deadline and leaving another 24 hours for editing and laying out the magazine.
5,000 people signed to contribute, magazine's editors were expecting about 500 submissions but ended up Read More »
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NYTimes.com: Geithner Day by Day
Posted by gio 493 days ago (http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com)The New York Times is very interested in crowdsourcing and is doing inernal pilots like this example of collective journalism. They asked their readers to find and report between 658 pages of the diary of the former persindent of Federal Reserve Bank of New York Timothy Geithner any interesting story to tell.
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NowPublic.com: The News is Crowdsourced
Posted by gio 511 days ago (http://www.nowpublic.com)NowPublic is aVancouver, Canada based site built and maintained with massivecrowd intervention. "NowPublic is a participatory news network which mobilizes an army of reporters to cover the events that define our world. In twelve short months, the company has become one of the fastest growing news organizations with thousands of reporters in over 140 countries. During Hurricane Katrina, NowPub
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CrowdSourcing in the editorial
Posted by gio 518 days ago (http://www.authonomy.com)Authonomy is a community built by HarperCollins to discover new writers letting them show their talent dealing strainght with the end users, the readers.
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Slashdot and New York Times Crowdsourcing site quality
Posted by gio 530 days ago (http://www.wired.com)Interesting story from Wired describing how Slashdot first and New York Times then crowdsourced their site quality to visitors by selecting randomly a bunch of them and asking them to rate live articles. The system works very well, readers are happy to be part of editorial process and get as benefits a reader pre-rated site. Then everybody is free to set the bar to the level of quality they ac
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