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US newspapers to try crowdsourcing

Jeff Howe at Wired News reports:

According to internal documents provided to Wired News and interviews with key executives, Gannett, the publisher of USA Today as well as 90 other American daily newspapers, will begin crowdsourcing many of its newsgathering functions. Starting Friday, Gannett newsrooms were rechristened "information centers," and instead of being organized into separate metro, state or sports departments, staff will now work within one of seven desks with names like "data," "digital" and "community conversation."

According to Wikipedia: "Crowdsourcing is a term coined by Wired magazine writer Jeff Howe and editor Mark Robinson in June 2006."

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