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NewsCred.com launched yesterday with a mission to aggregate all of the world’s most credible news in one place. While most players in the “get-your-news-here-and-nowhere-else” game focus on having their members both submit and vote on stories, NewsCred is all about credibility. NewsCred aggregates stories by category from top sources and their users vote on the credibility of articles, journalists, and news sources.

Looking at the site, there are three reasons to use NewsCred:

Why Use NewsCred?

1) Read all the world’s breaking news from quality newspapers and blogs.

2) Personalize your newspaper by selecting your favorite sources for each category.

3) Vote and learn which articles, journalists and news sources are credible and which ones aren’t.

Reputation, aggregation and personalization. Let’s take a look:

Reputation and Credibility

This is the technology section of NewsCred. Clicking on any story brings you to a detail page:

The page lists the credibility ranking of the article, which you can vote for as a user:

In addition, clicking on the author’s name will bring you to a page that contains the author’s credibility statistics:

Aggregation

As I mentioned, NewsCred grabs stories from multiple sources including the top 100 English language blogs in each category and top news sources. Here are some of the tech sources (ahem, blogstring is conspicuously missing):

Personalization

Checking or unchecking any of the blog sources and news sources allows you to add and/or remove stories from those publishers. In this sense, NewsCred is a lot like an RSS reader…..with the difference being the fact that NewsCred has already selected blogs for you by category.

Summary

I have to say I like NewsCred. The UI is slick, and I like having the ability to set my preferences by category once, and whenever I go back, stories will be there for me, sorted by credibility. Though having the ability to see stories by credibility initially didn’t seem like a big deal to me, I changed my mind quickly after visiting reddit and digg.com this morning.

The other subtle, but interesting thing about NewsCred is the ability to see author credibility independently from the blog itself. With many multi-author blogs out there, it will be really nice to see how different authors at the same site are ranked.

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