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March 8, 2012 10:24 pm GMT

NewsiT Raises $500K To Gamify Crowd Journalism

NewsiT.net_App ImagesCrowdsourced news platform NewsiT.net just announced that it has raised $500,000 in seed funding. And, timed to match the beginning of South by Southwest, it's also launching its iPhone app.The company was founded by longtime journalist Melinda Wittstock, who has worked for the Times of London, BBC Television, the Guardian, the Observer, ABC News, National Public Radio, and MSNBC/CNBC. Wittstock says she wanted to reinvent the newsgathering and publishing model after attending "too many conferences with a lot of moaning and not a lot of solutions."

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