NewsTrust.net offers interesting glimpse of future on two fronts

McGuire on Media, Arizona State University by Tim McGuire | Feb. 19, 2008 (News Analysis)

NewsTrust.net is one of those eye-opening experiments with social networking that leaves an old newspaper guy shaking his head in awe. Fabrice Florin, the enthusiastic and genuine executive director and founder of NewsTrust.net, stopped by the Cronkite School the other day to talk about educational partnerships with his fascinating experiment. Our own Dan Gillmor had invited Fabrice, and few better know what's hot in the new media world than ... Full Story »

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 by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 1, 2008

Former Star Tribune editor Tim McGuire's blog post about NewsTrust is remarkable in its accuracy, depth and insight, which is no small feat. The author presents relevant, factual information about this project, and fairly presents both challenges and opportunities of this new initiative. I also think he nails it on the head by pointing to the potential of NewsTrust as a news literacy tool for education. We're on it, and hope to join forces with some great new educational partners in coming months ... ;o) [Disclosure: I am the subject of this article, written about a presentation I gave to our advisor Dan Gillmor's colleagues at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkhite School of Journalism]

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