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 Rory O'Connor - Oct. 1, 2008

This blog post from an educator who was once managing editor of a major metropolitan daily newspaper, as well as a past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, cuts to the heart of both the NewsTrust experience and one of its major challenges: "evaluators are not going to be casual readers. Everybody can read the rated stories on the site, but to complete a review of a story a reader is going to have to be smart and willing to invest a considerable amount of time in the process."

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