New Kid On the Block: Is BrooWaha The Answer to LA's Newspaper Woes?

Circulation is down at the LAT. The OC Register and the San Diego Union-Tribune are both offering buyouts. The Weekly is in it deep (Jill Stewart is a big news, but has anyone caught on to the fact that they've laid off all the fact checkers?).

What's an LA Newsie to do? Take the news into you own hands, brother.

BrooWaha, an interactive online "citizen newspaper," was recently started up in LA by Israeli/Parisian Ariel Vardi
who wanted to "create an unbiased, reliable source of local and global
news written by a large community of amateur writers and journalists."

It's rough right now, but we think we see where it's going, and
damnit if it doesn't have heart! Maybe there's hope for journalism in
this town after all -- even if none of the journalists in town are part
of it.

In true citizen newspaper form, Vardi gives FBLA the scoop himself: