- ScribbleSheet
Infobox Newspaper
name = ScribbleSheet
caption =
type = Onlinenewspaper
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foundation =2007
owners = Scribble Sense Ltd.
political =Neutral
headquarters =London ,United Kingdom
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website = [http://www.scribblesheet.co.uk http://scribblesheet.co.uk]ScribbleSheet was an online magazine based in the
United Kingdom with the tagline "Comfortably Contrarian". It was launched onSeptember 25 ,2007 .It was one of the first of its kind in the world to publish articles from its readers with little to no editing, in an open source style of opinion writing. 100% of the site's content were written by its readers with no dedicated staff writers. [ [http://uk.blognation.com/2007/09/20/scribblesheet-set-to-launch-tuesday/ "ScribbleSheet Set to Launch Tuesday", Blognation, September 20, 2007] ] [ [http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/digitalcontent/2008/01/elevator_pitch_citizen_journal.html "ScribbleSheet Elevator Pitch", Guardian, January 17, 2008] ] The majority of articles were written by freelance contributors, journalism students and ordinary citizens. [ [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2007/12/12/review-scribblesheet-by-darcy-vergara/ "Review: ScribbleSheet (By Darcy Vergara)] ] The site launched a debates section in which posted articles were debated by members of the community. The site also had an interview section where the founders talk to journalists and members of the blogosphere.
The contributions on ScribbleSheet focus on News, Politics, Society, Business and Technology. ScribbleSheet can be seen as an evolution from
Oh My News andNewsvine however, the citizen journalism newspaper model has come under some previous skepticism. [ [http://uk.techcrunch.com/2007/09/25/scribblesheet-launches-citizen-journalism-site/ "ScribbleSheet Launches Citizen Journalism Site" Techcrunch UK, September 25, 2007] ]On March 31 2008 the site stopped to publish any new stories. [ [http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/03/31/scribblesheet-writes-its-own-obituary/ "Scribblesheet writes its own obituary", Techcrunch UK, March 31 2008] ]
ee also
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Citizen Journalism
*OhmyNews
*Newsvine External links
* [http://www.scribblesheet.co.uk ScribbleSheet]
* [http://scribblesheet.co.uk/blog ScribbleSheet Blog]References
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