Reuters and the Web

Reuters continues to invest in internet - participation partnerships. As well as supporting Global Voices - and getting and edge on global blogging content as a consequence - they are now investing in NewAssignment.net. This site is the brainchild of Jay Rosen at New York University and the PressThink blog and the idea is to provide a place for the public to suggest and offer stories and assignments they want to see professional journalists follow up. A place to incubate "networked journalism". It's a smart move by Reuters - they seem to have seedcorn capital to keep themselves across the cutting edge of participation and social networks on the web. Chris Ahearne, President of Reuters Media, explains their thinking here on Huffington Post.