Communities need help finding information on the Web they can trust

[Commentary] It's no secret that the landscape for news and information has shifted dramatically thanks to the Internet. Mostly, that's been a good thing as communities and those who live in them now have access to an unprecedented amount of news and information. But that tidal wave of data doesn't come without problems. Two prestigious institutions, the Knight Foundation and the Aspen Institute, want to do something about that and have teamed up to create the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. The commission is asking three big questions: 1) What are the information needs of communities in our American democracy? 2) What are the current trends affecting how community information needs are met? 3) What changes will ensure that community information needs will be better met in the future?