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Promote NewsTrust
Help us spread the word! Now that our beta site is public, we'd like to let the world know about our citizen news network. As a NewsTrust member, you're in a unique position to recommend us to your community: other readers, journalists, potential partners, donors, etc. Here are some suggestions of how you can help promote our site: • Recommend NewsTrust If you know journalists or influential people who would be interested in our project, consider sending them a personal recommendation, to tell them why you support NewsTrust. When you do, please include our blurb about NewsTrust in your message, along with a link to our site. We'd also be grateful if you would cc: our Executive Director, Fabrice Florin, at , so he can follow up on your recommendation. • Invite A Friend Please invite your friends, family or colleagues to join NewsTrust. Click on "Invite a Friend" to send them a personal invitation. • Bookmark NewsTrust If you use Digg, Del.icio.us or other social networks, consider bookmarking NewsTrust, at this URL: %% pathNetUrlHttpDomain %%/ • Write a Testimonial We'd be grateful if you could write a short testimonial about why you support NewsTrust, for our home page. We're looking for a sentence or two, like a book blurb. Simply post it here. • Put NewsTrust Buttons on your site If you have your own web page or website, put NewsTrust Buttons on your site. This will help you build trust with your readers, as well as promote quality journalism. • Write about NewsTrust If you're a journalist or blogger, consider writing about us. Check our press materials below: • About NewsTrust • About our Founder • Selected Quotes • Testimonials • Press Quotes • Pictures • Partner with NewsTrust If you're an active news site, consider becoming a NewsTrust Partner. This will help you get quality feedback from your readers, as well as promote your own work on NewsTrust. As a NewsTrust member, you're setting an example for people who are just now joining our community. Thanks for leading the way! Please if you have any questions about promoting NewsTrust. Thanks for supporting our cause! Fabrice Florin Executive Director, NewsTrust
About NewsTrust 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: %% pathNetUrlHttpDomain %%/ 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. If you're a journalist and would like to write about NewsTrust, please email us at .
About our Founder A former journalist and a digital media pioneer at Apple and Macromedia, Fabrice Florin founded NewsTrust to help citizens make informed decisions based on quality journalism. He now serves as Executive Director for NewsTrust, as a full-time volunteer. Fabrice Florin has an extensive 25-year track record as a digital media entrepreneur. Some of Fabrice’s notable ventures include: founding leading-edge wireless content provider Handtap for mobile phones; launching web entertainment site shockwave.com at Macromedia; pioneering interactive multimedia content at Apple; creating a new genre of video journalism for ABC and MTV. For more info, check Fabrice's online bio: http://newstrust.net/about/bio_florin.htm You can email Fabrice directly at .
Selected Quotes from Fabrice Florin "In recent years, the consolidation of mainstream media, combined with the explosion of new Internet websites and the rise of opinion news, have created a serious problem for democracy: many people feel they cannot trust the news media to deliver the information they need as citizens. To address this critical issue, NewsTrust has developed an online social network to help people find and share quality journalism - or 'news you can trust'." "Increasingly, commercial news providers are giving their audience more of what they want to hear, rather what they need to know as citizens. Our best hope for reversing this trend is to help citizens develop an appreciation for quality journalism over populist entertainment. Social news sites like NewsTrust have a unique opportunity to guide this process, by providing the media literacy tools we can all use to make more informed decisions as citizens." "NewsTrust can help re-build the trust that has been lost between the news media and the public. We hope to partner with traditional news providers to invite their readers to rate stories on their sites, using our state-of-the-art review tools. These partnerships can offer a variety of other useful benefits: increased traffic and revenue, better customer feedback, more user-generated content, improved editorial quality and community engagement." "The first generation of social news networks mostly measures content popularity, rather than its quality. But as NewsTrust and the next generation of social news sites integrate more reliable quality measurements and disciplined editorial processes, our collective news filters will become increasingly useful to the general public. To that end, NewsTrust is pioneering a number of collaborative evaluation methods, such as context-sensitive review forms, source reputation databases, and meta-review tools for rating our own work. Over time, we expect to join forces with forward-thinking news providers, to start incorporating methods like these in their own services. Ultimately, the most trusted new sources are likely to be hybrids between traditional news organizations and new social networks. " "We would like to offer the equivalent of a Weight Watchers for information, to help each of us balance our news diet over time. For example, future versions of NewsTrust could check if you’ve been viewing too many partisan opinions or entertainment news. We might encourage you to balance your diet with more factual information, more international coverage, or read more viewpoints that you don’t agree with. Tools like these can help each of us broaden our perspective, become more discriminating thinkers, and make more informed decisions."
Testimonials from our Members
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Press Quotes Here's what bloggers and journalists are saying about NewsTrust, our next-generation social news network. We're very grateful for these thoughtful perspectives about our citizen news network.
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NewsTrust Pictures Download NewsTrust pictures from our site, at the addresses below. * NewsTrust Photos: %% pathNetUrlHttpDomain %%/about/files/NewsTrustPix.zip This 5MB Zip file includes 9 photos in JPG format: - 3 photos from last spring’s pilot launch in Howard Rheingold’s class as Stanford - 3 photos from in Howard Rheingold’s class at UC Berkeley this fall - 3 mug shots of Fabrice Florin, NewsTrust's Executive Director * NewsTrust Logos: %% pathNetUrlHttpDomain %%/about/files/NewsTrustLogos.zip This small Zip file includes a variety of NewsTrust logos in GIF format. Please link them to our site: %% pathNetUrlHttpDomain %%/ Thank you!

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