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> Maybe it's time for a new kind of journalism without journalists or ads, with a focus on primary sources, and empowering interested communities to report and
by mahranch 10y ago
> Maybe it's time for a new kind of journalism without journalists or ads, with a focus on primary sources, and empowering interested communities to report and verify for other readers. It's unlikely to emerge from old media though.
I don't know, but it sounds a lot like you're describing reddit.
- grey-area 10y agoWell I think Reddit is heading in the right direction on certain subs and has the respect for readers/writers, but I was also thinking of something that takes the very real challenges in reporting something like a war and tackles them using technology, e.g. Providing verified sources on the ground, context in terms of long history, background on the key players, infographics on stats. Unfortunately Reddit is still a popularity contest, so in that sense it doesn't always surface the best content, just the most superficially popular. So more something that would be invaluable to a historian 100 years from now trying to write about a topic, or a person reading about a subject for the first time.