Filter the Best Stuff to the Front Page

Sites like NewsTrust take it for granted that expansion of the media space is a good thing. But filtering and forwarding systems must keep pace. The better we are at that--finding the good stuff, forwarding it to eager users--the easier it is to relax and accept that anyone can be a producer, or that good contributions can come from anywhere. [Disclosure: This article is about NewsTrust and its recent partnership with Huffington Post's OffTheBus project, ... Full Story »

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Fabrice Florin
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by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 1, 2008

In this thoughtful blog post, Jay Rosen describes a recent collaboration between NewsTrust, HuffPo and his OffTheBus project, to find the best journalism on John McCain. This article is quite accurate, and presents fairly some of the challenges and opportunities we encountered during this project. The author's insightful perspective helps us better understand where this experiment fits in the broader context of a rapidly changing media landscape, by comparing it to other approaches like NewsJunk.com and what Ethan Zuckerman calls 'social hacks.' [Disclosure: As NewsTrust's Executive Director, I am one of the subjects of this article]

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