Networked Journalism

From NYU Journalism School’s Pressthink site comes a very interesting story from Jay Rosen. A non-partisan coalition of reporters is coming together to collectively investigate Congressional earmarks.

It’s a brilliant idea, because it’s what the web does well. Here’s the opening salvo:

Today marks a key moment in the evolution of the Web as a reporting medium. The first left-right-center coalition of bloggers, activists, non-profits, citizens and journalists to investigate a story of national import: Congressional earmarks and those who sponsor and benefit from them.This is networked journalism (“professionals and amateurs working together to get the real story”) beginning to come of age, and it’s very much in the spirit in my initiative NewAssignment.Net.

Check out the site. It’s chock-a-block with links to all kinds of interesting stuff.

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