Assignment Zero
By Neil Dodds
16 March, 2007
New Assignment, Jay Rosen's project to utilise the wisdom of crowds (of reporters) to cover news stories, unveiled its latest project earlier this week.
With the slogan "Pro-Am Journalism Opens On The Web", Assignment Zero hopes to bring journalists together with members of the public to construct a story.
"An outstanding fact of the Net era is that costs for people to find each other, share information, and work together are falling rapidly. This should have consequences for reporting big, moving stories where the truth is distributed around. By pooling their intelligence and dividing up work, a network of journalists and volunteer users should be able to find out things that the larger public needs to know," Rosen writes in the introduction. The idea for assignment zero is to get hundreds of people to donate their time and effort to build one big story.
One day, he says, thousands of people may be linked to the creation of a story: For now, they're looking for hundreds. Sign up at the link above.
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