"NewsTrust's more thoughtful approach can yield dramatically different top stories. On Tuesday, NewsTrust's users selected "Top Ten Myths About Iraq 2006," from a blog written by Juan Cole, president of the Global Americana Institute. Digg's top story was "50 Reasons -- why it's great to be a Guy!!" from a blog written by someone named Mike in Los Angeles." - San Jose Mercury News - Elise Ackerman

"The site is looking to judge news articles online by quality, rather than simple popularity, with a more finely grained evaluation of news stories than one gets from the gladiatorial thumbs-up, thumbs-down votes by which stories live and die on Digg. (...) NewsTrust, in essence, aims to counter the fascination of the inclusive crowd -- picture Britney Spears on a Linux-based iPod sold by Microsoft -- with the wisdom of the vetted crowd." - InformationWeek - Thomas Claburn

"By building up an archive of ratings and recommendations over time, Newstrust will provide an increasingly comprehensive database of credibility for individual publications and even individual journalists." - The Guardian - Jemima Kiss

"NewsTrust aims to spotlight excellence. ... It hopes to support itself by offering media outlets its rating service, which would enable readers and viewers to rate stories based on criteria such as fairness, objectivity, factual evidence, clarity and relative importance." - The Baltimore Sun - Nick Madigan

"Rating with multiple criteria has a curious effect: at first, you're encouraged to read the article more carefully. And when it's time to rate the article, you feel an irresistible need to take a second look at certain sections, to make sure that your verdict will be correct. This invites a more attentive and critical review, making us better readers. And this is one of NewsTrust's central objectives." - Le Monde - Transnets - Francis Pisani

"It is cool because it will help me find things I might not otherwise find. It is cool because it might help improve the quality of journalism. It is cool because it is a worthwhile application of the power of social media, not a silly application thereof." - Philanthropy 2173 - Lucy Bernholz

"When I first wrote about NewsTrust, an online news rating service, I wasn't sure about how well a rating system for stories would work given the subjectivity about what's good journalism and the potential to game results, as we've seen with Digg and other sites. I'm still not sure, but now the world can check it out, in beta at least. This will be an interesting experiment to watch." - Business Week - Rob Hof

"Ever notice how the "most popular" news stories are more News of the Weird and New York Times material? NewsTrust is a user rated journalism site that focuses on bringing the "best" articles to the top rather than the most "popular"." - Tactical Philanthropy - Sean Stannard-Stockton

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