Getting to Know AZ

For my Digital Media Entrepreneurship class I’m learning not only to master blogging software (through this fabulous blog!) but am also being exposed to innovative entrepreneurial projects on the web. This week we were introduced to a site, newstrust.net. The site is based off of the idea that people will come and rate the trustworthiness of various articles that have been submitted. Unlike other news sites where people can comment, or rate articles, NewsTrust guides you through a set of questions about the article you’ve just read. Readers can rate from 1-5 on a number of items such as trustworthiness, sourcing, overall content, fairness and how informative it was. This seems to be a great site to further the trend of citizen journalism. Although readers aren’t creating the articles themselves they are able to dictate what is put on the site and how it highly it is reviewed.