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Brown Moses launches crowdsourced tracking of troops in Ukraine

on February 4, 2015

Eliot Higgins, the investigative blogger also known as Brown Moses, has launched a new project that uses crowdsourced data to track Ukrainian and Russian troop and vehicle movements in real time

Journalistic crowdfunding platform Beacon signs another partnership deal, this time with Newsweek

on November 5, 2014

The crowdfunding platform Beacon just announced a partnership with Newsweek magazine to help fund a reporter investigating sexual assaults on college campuses, and despite the criticisms of an earlier partnership with The Huffington Post, there are a lot of benefits to such an approach

Facebook’s chief product officer apologizes to the LGBTQ community

on October 1, 2014

Following the exodus of Facebook LGBTQ members to Ello, Facebook’s head of product published a post admitting to the company’s mistakes and promising to rectify them.

British blogger Brown Moses launches new site to train others in crowdsourced reporting

on July 14, 2014

British blogger Brown Moses, also known as Eliot Higgins, has become a leading source of fact-checked information about military activity in Syria and elsewhere, despite having no journalistic training. And now he wants to bring those skills to others through a site called Bellingcat.

VICE, Mashable, Digg and others form a collective for breaking news about Ukraine, may expand into other areas

on May 13, 2014

A group of six digital-media outlets, including VICE News and Mashable, have formed a loose collective aimed at collaborating on breaking news about Ukraine, an effort that started with a shared Twitter account and hashtag but could go further in the future

Reddit GM Erik Martin talks about the site’s unlikely success and its new live-reporting feature

on March 3, 2014

Reddit general manager Erik Martin says that while bad things happen on the site, the impressive thing is how infrequent they are, and how much good the site’s community achieves — and that’s part of the rationale behind the new live-reporting feature

Reddit is having the same problem as traditional media: Defining what the news is

on February 27, 2014

Critics of Reddit point to a moderator’s repeated removal of a Glenn Greenwald story as proof that the site can’t be trusted to do journalism, but in reality the moderator’s behavior is no worse — and in some ways better — than that of a newspaper editor

Reddit embraces its role as a journalistic entity with new live-reporting feature

on February 25, 2014

Reddit is beta testing a new feature that allows users to create and update live blogs about breaking news events such as the recent uprising in Ukraine or the war in Syria — a move that could be a valuable addition to the cause of “open-source journalism”

Critics say Facebook is erasing pieces of history by deleting pages about the war in Syria

on February 5, 2014

Activists and others involved in the war in Syria say Facebook has been deleting pages created by dissidents and removing content because it violates the social network’s standards, and that important information about the conflict is being lost as a result

Reddit’s crowdsourced media is a lot like the regular kind — good at some things, not so good at others

on September 17, 2013

This time, Reddit was the one that avoided naming the wrong suspect, while mainstream outlets bungled the story — but the bigger picture is that both traditional media and crowdsourced media have their strengths.

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