Decentralizing news

I’m happy to see that some efforts to decentralize news reporting are already taking shape. Today I read about Internet Newsgathering:

We call (Public) Internet Newsgathering the fundamental process of bringing facts from the news scene to the broadcast media via a chain of “open” elements: the public Internet, ubiquitous broadband access (fixed and mobile), open publishing sites (a.k.a. weblogs) RSS syndication and open and neutral exchanges like Lulop.com.

Together with initiatives like Freeporter, which brings trust metrics into the framework, it will hopefully enable people to collaboratively build independent news sites effectively taking back power from the commercial aggregators (newspapers, TV channels, etc.).