Another online news destination has launched in the Bay Area. KALW Public Radio unveiled its new “local digital news magazine” this week called Crosscurrrents.
The site lists more than 30 members of the Crosscurrents team and is actively soliciting correspondents from every corner of the Bay Area. The homepage displays ample original reporting, plus a number of links to news stories that have been “hand curated” from other sources. There is also geographic organization of news through Google mapping and a feature called Fixipedia, which senior reporter and producer Zoe Corneli described as a “tool to help generate solutions to issues in the news.” (Looks to me like a simple Q&A feature, but I like the strategy.)
“The site really aims to capture the essence of what it is to live in the Bay Area, in the spirit of public media,” Corneli told me via email.
The site was developed by RadioEngage, a 2009 Knight News Challenge winner building interactive digital platforms for public media sites on the open source Drupal framework.