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BeatBlogging.Org
13 beat reporters build social networks into their beats.
OffTheBus.Net
Help us cover the presidential elections at OffTheBus.net
Broowaha.com
A citizen journalism network to experiment with distributed reporting.
Readable Laws
Explaining Congressional legislation in plain English.
Assignment Zero
Published in Wired News.
Check out this 7-minute interview with Jay Rosen. Or watch the full presentation at the Berkman Center, also available in MP3, or this five part nicely edited
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NewAssignment.Net is a research project based at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and directed by professor Jay Rosen, who is on the faculty there and writes the popular press criticism blog, PressThink.
Its mission is to spark innovation in “open platform” journalism, distributed reporting and what’s now called crowdsourcing. These are forms made possible by the Web and by the falling costs for large numbers of people to locate each other, share information, and collaborate across distance.
Jay Rosen launched NewAssignment.Net—originally, a blog post—in July 2006, and said he was going to raise money for it. Original funders were the MacArthur Foundation and Craig Newmark, followed by the Sunlight Foundation, Reuters Media and Cambrian House, a software company. The McCormick Tribune Foundation has also contributed funding.
We think the hybrid forms—mixing professional journalists and amateur contributors—are going to be the strongest forms, and we’re attempting to show they have potential.
New Assignnment tracks developments in the field at this site, and conducts pro-am, open source reporting projects with media partners. These include:
Assignment Zero with Wired.com (assignmentzero.com)
Off The Bus with the Huffington Post. (offthebus.net)
Beatblogging.org with various newsroom partners. (Explained here.)
Plus these lab projects and demos:
Polling Place Photo Project (www.pollingplacephotoproject.org).
For more information e-mail David Cohn, director of distributed reporting for NewAssignment.Net and editor of this site.
