Hi everyone, I just wanted to bring attention to the recently publicly
launched (beta) NewsTrust - http://newstrust.net/ [1]

They have relatively comprehensive and easy to use rating tools for
citizens to use when rating stories/sources.

Here is a MediaChannel video on it:
http://www.mediachannel.org/articles/2006/11/29/Can_You_Trust.html [2]

Here's what Rory Oconnor wrote about it:
http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/ [3]

My only reservation is that citizens cannot properly rate the level of
trust a source has purely on the articles produced. They need to also
know the structure of the news organizations, owner, financing,
underwriting, editorial policy, and stories they do NOT cover. But
that's probably a different project all together.

I'm hoping that one day they have tools that enable other
organizations to use NewTrust rating tools on their sites. For example
it would be great to be able to integrate these tools on the COA News
(http://coanews.org [4]) site, so that our audience could rate our stories.

Glad to see another powerful participatory media site,
Steve