The journalism is changing, people want to be proactive, and Crowdsourcing journalism — obtaining data, information, or ideas from a group of people — can quickly put together a vast amount of information. The perfect example was the Boston Marathon bombings: an iPhone photo provided the image of one of the suspects.
There are several benefits of crowdsourcing as a journalistic tool:
- Volume of information
- Real time
- Different points of view
- Flexibility
- More geographical coverage
Many Blogs and webs ask readers to contribute with their stories: CNN iReport, ProPublica's Get Involved, the Lede Blog from The New York Times, Now Public, Digital Journal, All voices...
The latest app for Crowdsourcing Journalism in Guardian Witness: available online, and as an app for iPhone and Android devices. You can contribute your video, pictures and text, and browse all the news, reviews and creations submitted by others
According to The Guardian Web site, this new app divide contributions into three main categories:
1) Assignments. Editors will issue call-outs for your input on a wide range of topics
2) Live news tie-ins. Editors and reporters will sometimes flag live blogs as suitable for contributions, which will enable you to be part of a breaking or fast-moving story. They will include the best contributions in the live blog.
3) Open suggestions. This is where you can send us something that we haven't requested.
GNM publishes guardian.co.uk, the fourth largest newspaper website in the world, as well as guardiannews.com in the US. The Guardian's mobile site is the number 1 quality newspaper mobile site.
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