Why Ukraine News Collaboration Makes Sense

Journalism.co.uk, Thursday, May 15, 2014 3:16 PM

On Tuesday, Vice News announced a new, collaborative project with five other digital news outlets to pool their coverage of the Ukraine crisis around one hashtag and re-distribute it from an independent Twitter account. Ukraine Desk – involving Vice News, Quartz, Mashable, Mother Jones, Digg and Breaking News – is publicly billed as a low-cost experiment in digital collaboration as the "institutions of journalism become more porous", Monika Bauerlein, co-editor of Mother Jones, told Journalism.co.uk.