Today, NiemanLab shared a new report from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism: Guide to Crowdsourcing, by Mimi Onuoha, Jeanne Pinder and Jan Schaffer.
Included in the report is a breakdown of six ways to crowdsource:- Voting — prioritizing which stories reporters should tackle.
- Witnessing — sharing what you saw during a news event.
- Sharing personal experiences — telling what you know about your life experience.
- Tapping specialized expertise — contributing data or unique knowledge.
- Completing a task — volunteering time or skills to help create a news
- Engaging audiences — joining in call-outs that can range from informative to playful.Over the years at NPR, we’ve experimented with many of these methods, to varying degrees of success. Next week, I’ll share an on-going experiment we launched a few weeks back that uses at least four of these techniques.
If you’re interested in crowdsourcing, the report is a great resource. I plan to dig deeper into it this weekend.
- Lori
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