Content Management Matters ™

We last reported on Assignment Zero a week ago. Assignment Zero was NewAssignment's first pro-am journalistic endeavor, which has since closed. Moving on, OfftheBus, a collaboration between NewAssignment and Huffington Post, launched on July 18.

Can news be as successfully reported by innocent bystanders as it is by the often-biased fair and balanced, media? That was the question asked by the NewAssignment.net initiative, Assignment Zero. An experiment in “pro-am” (professional/amateur) journalism, in which journalism is run by the public rather than the media, Assignment Zero is an attempt at journalism without strings -- one might call it an audience-run newsroom.