NewsTrust

Going a little off topic for this post, but I felt it was necessary to talk about NewsTrust.net. This is a site that allows its readers to rate solid journalism and recommend it to fellow readers. The site moderators of News Trust pick a topic for the week and allow the readers to submit stories on it. The more you submit, the higher your ranking is and the higher your contributions are placed on a certain topic. NewsTrust also allows its readers to comment and rate several different aspects of the story. The higher each of the rankings is the better the story, and the more it gets read. However if the story does poorly it gets pushed to the bottom of the pile and readers have to search harder to find it. The rankings allow you to rate specific areas of the story such as facts, sources, quality of sources, stakeholders, to the way it’s written and several others. The site then allows you to write about whether you think the story is good journalism or if it falls short. You are allowed to write about 250 words describing what you think the story does well and what you think the story fails in. The next section allows you to post a key quote that you think sums up the article best. My favorite part of News Trust was the section where it allows you to rewrite a paragraph or paragraphs that you think need work on. By allowing this feature, this site really connects its readers with the news going on in the world. News Trust is the new wave of online journalism and people should be ready to embrace it.