The NewsTrust Experiment

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degree of education to convince them of this. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787.

Have you ever watched or read the news and known you were hearing a mistake? Or maybe facts were skewed to a certain viewpoint.  NewsTrust (dot) net is conducting an experiment with journalists, educators, citizens, and students to promote superb, fact-based news delivery.

This nonprofit social news network covers the Baltimore area, and news consumers are encouraged to rate and discuss the quality of their news 24 hours a day in an online environment. 

We hope our service will show them how to tell apart good journalism from misinformation, so they can become more discerning news consumers. Our goal for this experiment is to help Baltimore residents become better informed and more engaged about local issues — especially college and high school students. We hope our service will show them how to tell apart good journalism from misinformation, so they can become more discerning news consumers. --from the NewsTrust website

NewsTrust.net is funded by the Open Society Foundations, a philanthropic organization promoting human rights, justice, and accountability.