Joseph Tartakoff
May 4, 2011 1:40 PM
Citizen journalism site Allvoices has been sold to digital marketer Datran Media. The deal seems like an an odd tie-up, considering Datran is likely best known for its e-mail marketing platform and other digital marketing solutions, while Allvoices is a news site, which features user contributed stories, along with links…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jan 26, 2010 9:28 PM
Citizen journalism site AllVoices has raised $3 million in a funding round, we have confirmed with the company. The site lets any user contribute a piece of news and also features a stream of mainstream news content from various feeds. The user contributed coverage seems haphazard, with pieces ranging from…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Jul 21, 2008 2:14 PM
There have been numerous attempts at so-called “citizen journalism” news models.. The most successful model has been, well, blogs in general. Getting users to contribute journalism to some unified site has been more of a mixed bag. A recent launch in this space: AllVoices, previously known as Masala. Last summer…
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