User-news sites offer diverse stories, some questionable sources

San Francisco Chronicle by Joe Garofoli | Sep. 12, 2007 (News Report)

During a week this summer when the mainstream press focused on the immigration debate in Congress and a failed terrorism plot in the United Kingdom, the most popular stories on news sites where the users rank their favorites, like San Francisco's Digg, was - aside from chatter about Apple's new iPhone - not dominated by any one news story.
And that's part of their allure. The 24-hour news cycle doesn't exist on rapidly growing user-news sites like ... Full Story »

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 by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 1, 2008

Informative report based on a recent study by Journalism.org's Project for Excellence in Journalism. But it would have been helpful to hear independent perspectives from sources not associated with the study.

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