  We present Eventful, a system for producing news reports of local events
using remote and locative crowd workers. The system recruits and guides novice
crowd workers as they perform the roles of field reporter, curator, or writer.
Field reporters attend the events in person, and use Eventful's mobile web app
to get a personalized mission, submit content, and receive feedback. Missions
include tasks such as taking a photo, and asking a question to an attendee. In
parallel, remote curators approve, reject, and give real-time feedback on the
content collected by field reporters. Finally, writers put together a report by
mashing up and tweaking the content approved by the curators. We used Eventful
to produce a news report for each of the six local events we decided to cover
as we piloted the system. The process was typically completed under an hour and
costing under $150 USD.
