Australian Newsagency Blog

newassignment.net is a fascinating new US based model for publicly supported journalism. Read more at Jeff Jarvis’ blog BuzzMachine. NYU Associate Professor Jay Rosen is behind the project and he outlines his plans here. Newassignment.net is an exciting initiative. It puts people interested in news in play with those writing news stories. It uses open source methods and professional reporting skills to bring a story to completion. The more voices we have participating in reporting news the better. It will be interesting to see if any Australian Journalism schools support the project.