NewAssignment.net just launched this week, a laboratory combining citizen journalists with a functioning news bureau.
Earlier this year, the news giant Reuters hooked up with a band of citizen journalism upstarts--donating $100,000 to Jay Rosen's striking experiment, NewAssignment.net.
Eventually, the group aims to combine the research skills of thousands of citizen journalists, covering stories that one journalist could never cover alone. With this beta launch of the project, a variety of bloggers are publishing interviews and stories about developments in digital journalism.
Here's a great example written by John McQuaid...
"Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation is one of them. He worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he was a researcher for investigative reporters Donald Barlett and James Steele; afterward, he spent nearly a decade at the Center for Public Integrity. At Sunlight, he has placed himself at the emerging nexus of citizen journalism and national politics, specifically Congress. Since starting at Sunlight last year, he has had a run of interesting stories and projects that capture something of how journalism will look like in the future."
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