[MGP-Forum Announce] News Trust

[steve at coanews.org]

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

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


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


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) site, so that our audience could rate our stories.


Glad to see another powerful participatory media site,
Steve