2009 was the year that journalism took a (healthy) turn towards more a collaborative future:
Up until now, journalism has been devoted to verified facts – but the crowdsourced approach is generally not about using previously trusted sources. Instead of checking each contribution and verifying it individually, this was the start of a new statistical approach.
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In terms of journalistic coverage of last year, crowd-sourced journalism had a finger in most of the bigger pies.