Ground Report, the hyperlocal citizen journalism project that we profiled last week, has added a new twist to their experiment:

From now on, every news item submitted to GroundReport must be approved by our Editorial Team prior to publication. GroundReport's Editorial Team is a mix of staff editors and qualified members of our community.

 

After you publish, your work will wait in a submissions queue until our team checks and approves it. 

As the citizen journalism movement expands we're likely to see this pattern repeated: a hub site appears and begins to funnel a lot of information through it before the need for both an editorial voice and oversight assert themselves. Ground Report says that the "bottom line" is every report on the site "will be credible and trusted". The move also appears to be a prerequisite for the site's new syndication partnerships with the Huffington Post and Newstex.

Since we're fans of citizen journalism in general, and Ground Report specifically, here we're curious to see how this move plays out.