Beat blogging: health and medicine
In January, reporter Lex Alexander wrote about his nascent efforts to figure out how to use the principles, practices and tools of social networking to improve covering a topic area. He's been plugging away at that at the same time he's been sizing up the issues and complexities of the health and medical beat.
He writes about his progress with beat blogging.
We aren't one of the 13 official news organizations involved in this effort put together by Jay Rosen and NewAssignment.Net. But we said last year we were going to watch it, learn from it and give it a shot. Thanks to David Cohn for his help, and kudos to Lex for taking the ball and running downfield, even if we're not sure where the goal line is.
And we're open to ideas and suggestions from you.
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Major kudos to your organization and Lex for being ready to try it out. As I always say: It is cheaper and easier to try things online than it is to have lots of meetings to decide whether or not to try things online.
While that is the case - most organizations still go the route of meeting after meeting to just "think" about these things.
Posted on April 28, 2008 9:37 PM