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Social Network for Journalists

Interesting development: professional journalists will have a social network called Publish2 where they "will be able to capture information that appeals to their interests and collaborate with other journalists in a private context." (Thanks to Ed Ward for the pointer.) [Link]

Publish2 is looking to expand on much of the groundwork that sites like Digg have created. “Digg was a real trailblazer and proved that this kind of social collaborative networking can work on a large scale and we’re looking to extend the model,” says Karp. “Digg has hit upon a certain amount of limitation with the way their open system is structured and the way it’s been dominated by its audience of young, male tech enthusiasts. What we’re aiming to do is compete with other aggregators and we’re betting that human intelligence still has superior news judgement.”

I wonder how this will compare to Jay Rosen's Assignment Zero, a site for open source journalism that brings journalists together with public sources (such as bloggers or "citizen journalists").

jon posted this at 8:58 AM
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