Inefficiencies

Easy, immediate, responsible deployments of crowdsourcing

7 Comments / Journalism / By Daniel Victor

Tweet(This is Part 2 on my series about crowdsourcing. Part 1 argued the crowd can help ease the pain of a shrinking staff, and Part 3 defended the underlying principles of crowdsourcing.) I understand that crowdsourcing is a scary word to a lot of journalists. So I thought it would help to offer some specific …

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Crowdsourcing can lead newspapers through buyout blues

12 Comments / Journalism / By Daniel Victor

Tweet(This is Part 1 of a three-part series on crowdsourcing. Read Part 2 for specific examples of ways the crowd can be responsibly deployed, and Part 3 for a defense of the underlying principles of it.) Last week, my newspaper said goodbye to nine journalists, a combined 227 years of experience between them. In the …

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