Six media companies are forming an alliance to report local news and provide it on multiple platforms — print, online, broadcasting and citizen journalism. The partners include NBC11, the San Jose alt-weekly Metro, Metro’s Web company Boulevards, online news aggregator Topix and two citizen journalism sites, San Jose Inside and the Los Gatos Observer. Here’s a release describing the alliance. It ends with a request for resumes from news writers and editors “who know this market well.”
who is going to pay people for their effort? Is it free labor?
And how will the monitor for independent reporting instead of propaganda?