Community-Driven News
The NYT describes a movement of community news, driven by groups of independent journalists who are dissatisfied by the shrinking newspaper industry:
Here it is VoiceofSanDiego.org, offering a brand of serious, original reporting by professional journalists — the province of the traditional media, but at a much lower cost of doing business. Since it began in 2005, similar operations have cropped up in New Haven, the Twin Cities, Seattle, St. Louis and Chicago. More are on the way.
Article here.
