Their customers rave about the quality of their technology products, and the resulting gains in engagement and operating efficiencies. Shafqat Islam, Chief Executive Office of NewsCred said, “Daylife has long been a pioneer and has led the market with their innovative tools. NewsCred will continue to invest in, support and enhance the current Daylife cloud publishing products under the NewsCred brand. We’re all ears, and we have a ton of journalists on board who want to help us make this work.NewsCred, the content marketing and syndication platform, has acquired Daylife, a producer of cloud-publishing tools. As Brian says, you trust them when buying a book or camera, so let’s try this experiment with news. I just don’t think we should dismiss the news reader’s ability to determine if an article is well written, or fact checker, or biased, or transparent etc. Lots of possibilities, and we’re always looking for feedback. Perhaps NewsCred’s voting system is too simple and we should add granularity. To both of you, I’m glad you agree that this is a problem that needs fixing. We just didn’t want to take editorial judgment when it came to source selection since that would defeat the – why did you get heat? For having a strong opinion and sticking to it?! If they aren’t quality sources, they will be voted down (as they have been). Fake Steve Jobs is slightly ironic, but so is the Sun and Daily Mirror. We can build it.įascinating post, and intriguing – Drudge has been a source on NewsCred from day 1. If anybody’s got a better idea on how to tackle this, let’s talk. Maybe NewsCred sucks, but they’ve found an itch that needs scratching. How am I to select between The Irish Times and The Jerusalem Post? I need to find context in the cacophony. Why don’t I deserve the same when selecting a news source? I’m not choosing between the two local papers. When I buy anything on Amazon, I always read at the reviews. Is it arrogant to deride NewsCred as a popularity contest? When I buy a digital camera, I pay close attention to the user ratings at Digital Photography Review. And in the age of the web, where we have thousands if not millions of sources of information, isn’t it useful to have a place where it’s written down publicly? I agree that credibility is best built from experience over time, but that knowledge is locked away in the minds of readers. Instead of “will NewsCred work?” how about “does journalism’s credibility problem need a drastic solution?” I’ve gotten some heat about this post - maybe it’s worth re-framing the question. If we publish junk, we should get buried.īring on the hate. Zed Shaw says “The Internet needs identity, reputation, and retribution.” Readers know who we are, and rely on our reputations, but comments and letters to the editor are hardly retribution. Journalism has a credibility problem largely because journalists are producing lots of crap. Yes, this encourages readers to be haters, but they can also give props to the good stuff. NewsCred is trying to solve a real problem: the disaffected news audience. They were made by lovely people I’m certain, so, sorry for being a hater, but dang - it’s just a bunch of shiny shiny.) (For several examples of new media journalism that’s barking up the wrong tree, check out the DayLife Developer Challenge winners. Only time will tell if NewsCred has legs, but hell, even if it ain’t perfect, they’re at least barking up the right tree. They’ll fail.Īll social apps need to get the secret sauce just right - and most totally fail. They’re trying to play whack-a-mole with credibility and identify all the bad stuff - just as news people, long accustomed to packaging the world in a pretty box with a bow on top, keep wanting to kill every bad comment on their sites. I think these folks are attacking the problem from the wrong perspective. That’s why I’m into NewsCred, it’s the Digg-shaped anti-Digg. Every time we report on flag pins, pregnant dudes or autism-causing vaccinations, god kills a kitten. Speculation, opinion and spectacle have ruined the news. MSNBC, Fox News, and the 24 hour news cycle. Who do you believe? Blog X or The New York Times? When we lose our cred, we’ve got nothing! Credibility is journalism’s *only* currency. It ain’t breaking news that journalism’s got a bit of a credibility problem - okay, a disasterous credibility problem. The site, which aims to help users find ‘the highest quality and most credible news online’, has created a digital newspaper of aggregated articles, which are voted on by users. NewsCred, a website aimed at gauging the credibility of online news, has been launched in a beta.
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