VICE, Mashable, Digg and others form a collective for breaking news about Ukraine, may expand into other areas
A group of six news organizations and digital-media outlets — including VICE, Mashable, Digg, Quartz, Mother Jones and NBC-owned Breaking News — have created a somewhat unusual collective effort aimed at reporting breaking news about Ukraine, an effort they are calling #UkraineDesk. For the moment at least, the venture consists of just a common hashtag that all the different entities have agreed to use, which is then pulled into a similarly-named Twitter account, but some of the players say if it works they may expand into other areas.
The Twitter feed was launched on Tuesday, along with a short introductory blog post from Jason Mojica, the editor-in-chief of VICE News, who said that the goal of the project is to “deliver distinctive and original reporting by the participating sites” about the upheaval in Ukraine, and to bring together “smart, distinctive coverage [to] provide the broadest view, and the smartest perspective.”...MORE
