Citizen Journalism Takes a Leap Forward

A new experiment in citizen journalism plans to some crowdsourcing and include readers and their sources in the network that journalists can tap into for stories.

Assignment Zero, a collaboration between Wired magazine and NewAssignment.Net, the experimental journalism site established by Jay Rosen, a professor of journalism at New York University, intends to use not only the wisdom of the crowd, but their combined reporting efforts—an approach that has come to be called "crowdsourcing," reports The NY Times

Citizens with a variety of expertise—the "people formerly known as the audience," as Professor Rosen describes them—will produce work to be iterated and edited by experienced journalists.

This is an experiment to watch. It could turn out to be a place where your experts can contribute content.  Some of the content might even make it into Wired, says Chris Anderson, the editor. .