TweetTen years down the road, beatblogging is going to be much more important to the news organization than it is now as we’re in the primitive stages of trying to figure it out. I see it as the future band-aid, if not the solution, to the epidemic of emaciating staff resources. Let’s first acknowledge that …
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TweetPat Thornton’s interview with me, and his resulting recap, is up at Beatblogging.org. His conclusion: Sometimes a Ning network just doesn’t work. I believe the experience of the Hershey Home is a valuable laboratory for other journalists, especially those outside of the big cities. This is why I love the beatblogging.org project — it’s real …
TweetAt the end of the final June meeting of the Derry Twp. school board, I told a parent that I’d see her at the next meeting. But until then, I enthusiastically said to the Hershey Home member, she should participate a lot on the Ning network! “Ehh…” she said, shrugging her shoulders. I half-smiled in …
TweetI love the beatblogging project because it’s innovation in real newsroom laboratories, as opposed to tsk-tsking and dreaming. My foray into it has had its ups and downs, but I recently had a kind of success story that I didn’t expect when I signed up. And it shows why I believe so much that social …
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TweetAs one of the 13 reporters in Jay Rosen and David Cohn‘s beatblogging.org project, I’ve read a lot of response to the concept. The Journalism Iconoclast is behind the concept, calling you an idiot if you’re a sports reporter who isn’t on the train. In a comment on one of Cohn’s posts on Wired Journalists, …
Why I’m beatblogging: It helps the print product, too Read More »