At Yoosk, we have had a mixed reaction from professional journalists to the concept of partnership with their readers. Our aim is to break down barriers to entry to the media for ordinary users: people who don’t have the time or the talent to blog but still want to get involved. Users can ask interview questions of public figures and the most popular are then passed on to freelance journalists who’ll get the answers (or if the answers have already appeared elsewhere, we’ll post them). Some pro-journalists have been very disparaging about the kind of questions punters will ask on the site. We haven’t launched yet but we hope to prove them wrong when we do.

And what did he (and you) think about Newsvine? I’m curious (and I’m one of Newsvine’s users).