The mag that was the first to carry a column of a rising kind-of-a-reporter-and-kind-of-not by the name of Matt Drudge is now staking out new territory in the same field…this time using a new take on the business model of crowdsourcing.

“Can large groups of widely scattered people,” asks Wired’s Jay Rosen, “Working together voluntarily on the Web, report on something happening in their world right now, and by dividing the work wisely tell the story more completely, while hitting high standards in truth, accuracy and free expression?”

Developing…