Fledgling website hopes to open journalism to all

Can you and me save journalism?

From Reuters:

“A year-old website, inspired by the use of Twitter and Internet media reporting out of Iran , hopes to become the go-to forum for citizen journalists everywhere as traditional media pulls back.

Allvoices.com, a fledgling social networking-cum-news aggregator site launched in 2008, uses algorithms to help it sort news from around the world in a manner akin to what Google Inc does. Its twist is that it encourages and enables anyone to be a reporter and uses an in-house system to rate would-be journalists on popularity and credibility.”

I haven’t spent much time at allvoices.com, but I strongly support sites like this that seek to improve the quality of today’s journalism.

We’ll be keeping an eye on this site and maybe even adding some of our own local news. How about you?