Jay Rosen and his crew at NewAssignment.net have launched AssignmentZero:
How the Web makes it possible for the crowd to be the source of good ideas. But instead of one journalist reporting, we’ve created a site where many people can work on the story, with editors as guides.
It’s a great start to a project that [...]
David Lazarus of the SF Chronicle, in “Pay-to-play is one way to help save newspapers,” says “it’s time for newspapers to start charging for — or at least controlling — use of our products online.”
Lazarus, normally an excellent columnist, gets things almost precisely wrong in this piece.
He raises the issue of charging and then pretty [...]