Jay Rosen's AssignmentZero Needs a Few Good Design Writers

As our laptop dries out from an exceptionally damp weekend in New York (a reliable umbrella would make a nice gift for your editors this holiday), we discovered a great way for all you aspiring design writers to get your feet wet. We met NYU’s Jay Rosen this weekend, mind behind PressThink and enabler for the Polling Place Photo Project experiment we chatted about last year. He’s recently launched AssignmentZero, the open source journalism initiative, and we were delighted to see that there’s plenty of design-related topics for you to dive right into.

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