2008 Woodie Awards
Web site gives readers the power
Guerilla News Network is new way to stay informed
Elise Phillips, Assistant Pulse Editor
Issue date: 4/10/08 Section: Features
Take Wikipedia and cross-breed it with The New York Times or The Washington Post and you've got the Guerilla News Network. Named one of PC Magazine's Top 100 undiscovered Web sites, guerillanews.com gives users the power to publish articles of their own. Unlike Wikipedia however, sources and information in articles posted on guerillanews.com must be substantiated. The Web site does not publish "inappropriate" or "plagiarized" information.
Guerilla News is an independent news organization based in New York which seeks "to expose people to important global issues through cross-platform guerrilla programming," according to the Web site. The site contains articles, headlines, videos, links and blogs about current events. Anyone can publish stories, although they must follow rules placed on articles by the creators of Guerilla News.
The Web site uses what the founders call "GNN" style, similar to AP style. On the site, there rules that users follow when publishing an article, blog or movie. To post something on the site, the user must create a username and password, which is free. However, those who contribute articles to Guerilla News do not get paid.
Guerilla News began in 2000 by Josh Shore and Stephen Marshall, two MTV employees who realized that their radical take on news and entertainment would never be published in primetime television or conventional news Web sites.
Marshall and Shore's Web site now receives an average of 25,000 hits per day, although they have had as many as 300,000-a far cry from their initial 300 visitors per day.
Shore is a film and television producer who prior to starting Guerilla News produced films for USA network, Fuse, Showtime and MTV.
Guerilla News was formed in 2000 by Josh Shore and Stephen Marshall, two MTV employees who realized that their radical take on news and entertainment articles would never be published in primetime television or conventional news Web sites.
Marshall is a writer, award-winning director and creator of Channel Zero, the world's first global VHS newsmagazine. Shore is a film and television producer who prior to starting Guerilla News produced films for USA network, Fuse, Showtime and MTV.
Guerilla News is an independent news organization based in New York which seeks "to expose people to important global issues through cross-platform guerrilla programming," according to the Web site. The site contains articles, headlines, videos, links and blogs about current events. Anyone can publish stories, although they must follow rules placed on articles by the creators of Guerilla News.
The Web site uses what the founders call "GNN" style, similar to AP style. On the site, there rules that users follow when publishing an article, blog or movie. To post something on the site, the user must create a username and password, which is free. However, those who contribute articles to Guerilla News do not get paid.
Guerilla News began in 2000 by Josh Shore and Stephen Marshall, two MTV employees who realized that their radical take on news and entertainment would never be published in primetime television or conventional news Web sites.
Marshall and Shore's Web site now receives an average of 25,000 hits per day, although they have had as many as 300,000-a far cry from their initial 300 visitors per day.
Shore is a film and television producer who prior to starting Guerilla News produced films for USA network, Fuse, Showtime and MTV.
Guerilla News was formed in 2000 by Josh Shore and Stephen Marshall, two MTV employees who realized that their radical take on news and entertainment articles would never be published in primetime television or conventional news Web sites.
Marshall is a writer, award-winning director and creator of Channel Zero, the world's first global VHS newsmagazine. Shore is a film and television producer who prior to starting Guerilla News produced films for USA network, Fuse, Showtime and MTV.
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