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NewsTrust : Found this site via boingboing, it’s a non-profit news site that actually focuses on quality content and “news you can trust”. This is a huge breath of fresh air for me, as someone who is completely turned off by the garbage and fluff on sites like digg and reddit, and the completely biased propaganda on ‘media machine’ corporate news sites like cnn and fox.

It’s rating system works different than digg and others. Whereas digg would have one button to approve a story, NewsTrust asks readers to rate stories on a scale of 1-5 in six different categories: Recommendation (Is it a good story?), Information (Is this story informative?), Sources (Is it well sourced?), Trust (Do you trust this publication?), Fairness (Is this story fair?) and Contect (Does it show the “big picture”?). In addition, readers can leave comments and tags for an article.

Here’s some info picked from their site:

NewsTrust is a citizen news service that helps people find good journalism online. This next-generation social network features some of the best news and opinions from hundreds of trusted online sources. NewsTrust members rate news stories based on journalistic quality, not just popularity.

It’s a great way to get “news you can trust” all in one place. NewsTrust offers a fine selection of quality journalism on their free web site, which is now open to the public: http://beta.newstrust.net/

NewsTrust encourages both media literacy and civic engagement. NewsTrust review tools guide members through careful news evaluations, based on key journalistic principles such as fairness, balance, evidence, context and importance. Independent research studies show that citizen reviewers using these review tools can evaluate news quality reliably - and as effectively as experienced journalists.

NewsTrust publishes a quality ratings database for hundreds of mainstream and alternative news sources, to help the public identify trustworthy publications. This valuable online knowledge base about the news media was created to help citizens make more informed decisions about our democracy.

NewsTrust is non-profit, non-partisan and member-driven. NewsTrust’s Executive Director, Fabrice Florin, is a former journalist and a digital media pioneer at Apple and Macromedia. The NewsTrust team includes award-winning journalist and media executive Rory O’Connor and former Lucasfilm project manager David Fox, who bring extensive track records in content and technology development. NewsTrust advisors include Dan Gillmor, Howard Rheingold and other digital media innovators from organizations like Google, Poynter Institute and the University of California.

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