I just attended the Human Rights Watch conference and am now at the Innovation Journalism conference - and in both cases, I've been hearing a bit about crowdsourcing and hearing about some novel approaches.
Crowdsourcing, which really means using the wisdom of crowds as a combined input - like birdwatchers reporting on migrations, etc. - is now being interpreted by two new groups in a broader way.
Allvoices.com is set up to let anyone be a reporter. Its aimed at letting people outside the developed world in particular have a voice in a journalistic context. It pays a very nominal sum to contributors (like $1 for 1,000 page views). One does not have to be approved by the site as a contributor - so there is no background check, etc. So anyone can be a contributor on their site.
Allvoices.com is venture-funded.
Spot.us is aimed at using the crowd as a lead for an assignment desk. Stories are funded by the crowd. Spot.us as a site is funded as a nonprofit with a staff of 2. Community funds are used to pay reporters for story assignments. It is not using the technique of having many people contribute in the classic crowdsourcing model.
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