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In online reporting experiment, a good start is essential

TweetThe gears are turning, and pretty soon I’ll be embarking on what Ryan Sholin called a “community-directed reporting” experiment. From here on out I’m stealing Ryan’s name for it, because it’s a good one. The short version: I’ll soon be starting in a new role at The Patriot-News as a hyrbid mobile journalist/general assignment reporter …

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Beatblogging: A future model for the shrinking newsroom

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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Beatblogging.org recaps the Hershey Home

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 …

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Beatblogging success story: The “Open for Business” sign

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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