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Assignment Zero and Second Life News Bureau Among Nominees for Innovative Journalism AwardsAlmost criminally, Newsvine has been left off the list (and Assignment Zero made it? Puh-leeze!
Did Assignment Zero Fail? A Look Back, and Lessons LearnedAmbitions ran high when Wired joined forces in January with new media incubator NewAssignment.net to try a novel experiment in pro-am journalism.
Did Assignment Zero Fail? A Look Back, and Lessons LearnedAmbitions ran high when Wired joined forces in January with new media incubator NewAssignment.net to try a novel experiment in pro-am journalism.
Open-Source Journalism: It's a Lot Tougher Than You Think In which a member of crowdsourced journalism's "working class" shares a ground-level view of the motivations, the frustrations, and the potential of this movement
Creative Crowdwriting: The Open Book (we got published)Well, the Assignment Zero project actually bore some fruit. Even though I bailed in the end on writing the final article for our arm of the effort, Newsvine's contributors still got credit in the "Reported By" section. Just thought y'all would like to know...
Are Interviews Being Replaced By Email Exchanges?This is an interesting theory
Jay Rosen Posts Update On Assignment ZeroExcerpt: "Assignment Zero, Updated. With Initial Results... We published the first piece from Assignment Zero. The project has morphed a bit. And we're introducing Interview Week. "Right now I'd say about 28 percent of what we did worked. But there's time to push that up."
One of the problems with signing up for things on the Internet is that e-mails keep coming to your inbox. Like an old flame who keeps in touch, sometimes you are tempted to take another look.
I made my concerns about AZ known last week, and the comment thread it inspired made it pretty clear that I'm not alone in my disillusionment with the project.
This is research data only for an ongoing crowdsourced novels review of Naked Came the Manatee. =================================================== NCTM by the Numbers Brain Child of Tom Shroder - then editor of MH Tropic
So, I'm heading up the nonfiction aspect of this and I know today is the deadline but we're not gonna make the deadline. I've had a handful of people promise to tackle various subprojects in this field, but have yet to hear back from anyone.
Assignment Zero has captured the imagination of many, both within Newsvine as well as outside. Thanks to the lead by many leaders in our community, many Viners are actively pursuing projects and assignments.
Now that the commotion around the introduction of the Newsvine/Assignment Zero cooperative journalism project has died down a bit, it is time for everyone to 'fess up to exactly what they are willing to give to the project.
Recently newsvine has teamed up with Assignment Zero, a collaboration between Wired Magazine and NewAssignment.Net, to offer newsvine users a chance to come together as a community and work collectively on group projects.
NY Times Columnist Explains Assignment Zero (subscription may be required)This is the best, most concise and thorough piece I've seen on what this whole Assignment Zero project is all about. (Normally I'd avoid NYT pieces but I wanted to make an exception for this one) Oh and Brian Ford is sadly NOT mentioned in this article. Nor am I.
AZ: Experiment unleashes citizen journalists"In this instance, the topic will be crowdsourcing, so the phenomenon will be used to cover the phenomenon itself. Citizens with a variety of expertise will produce work to be reproduced and edited by experienced journalists."
PressThink Columnist Jay Rosen Asks For Help With Assignment Zero ProjectRosen does a good job summing up the needs of the project
Alright ya'll, here's the deal. Everyone is very excited about working with Assignment Zero but nobody is very sure where to start - well, let's get this sorted out.
All the World's a Story Journalism has always been a product of networks. A reporter receives an assignment, begins calling "sources" — people he or she knows or can find.
"Your reply deserves a well-thought-out response -- thanks for posting, but give me some time to consider my reply."
Assignment Zero ... They Like Us, They Really Like Us (Except these guys)From the article: The reaction to the launch of Assignment Zero was so profound that even I was surprised (and I think it's a pretty important, if risky step.) By my rough count, there were well nigh 150 blog posts on us in the first 24 hour, and we've received inquiries from a n …
I know this wasn't what you were asking, but in answer to your question in a completely different context: the writer of a given article will have a byline for that article in Assignment Zero.
On behalf of everyone at NewAssignment.Net, I want to thank the Newsvine community for taking on an important chunk of Assignment Zero. I'm new to your site, but I'm already impressed at your ability to organize and your enthusiasm for the task.
The package has been delivered. | AssignmentZeroThe "package" which Jay had promised to Newsvine has been delivered: three major trend stories (to start) all wrapped up and tied with a ribbon.
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