CrowdVoice wants to help curate and verify crowdsourced news

This free open source tool aims to make it easier for news organisations to collect, verify and embed news and data in stories

Posted: 5 August 2015 By: Mădălina Ciobanu

Data is a huge asset for news organisations and can provide valuable insight into a story, whether it comes from documents or eyewitness footage.

But because there are so many platforms where people share their experiences, it can be challenging for journalists to track all the information relevant to a topic or event and put it into a larger context.

This is where a new project funded by the Knight Foundation is hoping to help. CrowdVoice.by, due for launch in October from citizen journalism platform CrowdVoice, is a new open source tool that newsrooms can personalise and use to collect, distribute and embed crowdsourced news and data.

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