There have been a number of great conversations around outsourcing local journalism in the fall-out of the Journatic Controversy. The general sentiment is that its not so great to have folks out of country writing your local news, but its definitely great to have your readers augment your content creation with lead generation and even content.

Josh Stearns just posted on FreePress.Net with his reflections on this conversation citing SeeClickFix as one of the main players augmenting local journalism through the crowd:

http://www.freepress.net/blog/2012/07/24/whats-answer-outsourced-news