Comments on: Crowdsourcing To Be Used By News Publisher Gannett http://laughingsquid.com/crowdsourcing-to-be-used-by-news-publisher-gannett/ art, culture and technology from San Francisco and beyond Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:36:25 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Volunteer http://laughingsquid.com/crowdsourcing-to-be-used-by-news-publisher-gannett/comment-page-1/#comment-49963 Volunteer Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:19:32 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/2006/11/04/crowdsourcing-to-be-used-by-news-publisher-gannett/#comment-49963 In a counter move, the crowd organizes <a href="http://www.mediavolunteer.org" rel="nofollow"> to organize mass numbers of volunteers to build and maintain a community managed database on media, media outlets and journalists so that better and more relevant stories can be pitched back at folks from Gannett. Volunteers are motivated by the pending collapse of the fourth estate and the desire to see more inspired and important stories "in" the news (and less marketing regurgitation as news).</a> In a counter move, the crowd organizes to organize mass numbers of volunteers to build and maintain a community managed database on media, media outlets and journalists so that better and more relevant stories can be pitched back at folks from Gannett.

Volunteers are motivated by the pending collapse of the fourth estate and the desire to see more inspired and important stories “in” the news (and less marketing regurgitation as news).

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