ReportingOn: A backchannel for your beat
Every journalist I know is a gossip. We might not call ourselves gossips, but that's one of the things we do. Every good journalist I know is also curious. Curious about all sorts of topics -- what they're working on and what everyone else is working on. Every good journalist wants to ask that one additional question and possibly get that special piece of information that will make his story better.
That's why I like Ryan Sholin's ReportingOn idea.
In short, ReportingOn.com would be a social network for reporters looking for others on the same beat (in different towns).
Make it easy for everyone reporting on "sea lions" to find each other, perhaps as part of a larger group of people reporting on "science."
One more thing: Every good journalist I know is always looking for the next good story idea. This coudl be a place they can find it. We aren't above theft.
Ryan also links to a Facebook group on the idea.
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I apologize for this being a little off the topic but I feel it's more than worth asking. On Wednesday a Lt. Michael Murphy, an American soldier, was awarded the "Medal of Honor" posthumously for his heroism in Afghanistan. My question is, since I cancelled my subscription quite a while ago because you gave from page coverage to a loon Michael Moore, I ask, did you give front page coverage to Lt. Michael Murphy, a true American hero, or did you blurb it with a small paragraph in section "Z" or did you give a crap and not cover it at all?
Posted on October 26, 2007 11:30 AM
Thanks, John.
ReportingOn is still just a concept at the moment; I'm planning to keep talking about it out in the open as much as possible, to get feedback from folks like yourself.
"Every good journalist I know is always looking for the next good story idea."
That's a big part of the idea: Find new angles on old topics; stop writing the same story over and over again.
Posted on November 4, 2007 2:57 PM