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.”