Involving community in your journalism: NYC24 uses public wiki to help tell story

David Cohn, editor at NewAssignment.net, points to another interesting experiment in collaborative journalism (aka crowdsourcing) from NYC24, a new multimedia workshop at Columbia’s J-school.

Here’s David’s description:

On a public wiki they have written the skeleton of a story about bloggers being sued and hope to quickly create a community of interested bloggers, writers, whoever around that wiki to help them find out what’s happened in this arena.

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The final story will be edited, fact-checked, made libel free and posted on NYC24.org’s “risk issue.”

It’s an experiment we’ll be keeping an eye on. And David is right that journalism schools (and student media) should be experimenting with ways to guide a community to help in reporting on issues around their campuses.

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