Public Square, cont.: You be the assignment editor
Another small step toward making N-R.com a true public square: There's now a link on the home page, right underneath the Top News Updates, whereby you can submit a suggestion for a story directly to me. I'll forward your suggestion to the appropriate editor or reporter. I'll also let you know via return e-mail when I have done so and to whom I forwarded it.
This arrangement isn't quite as rich and transparent as the one suggested by Jim Wilson and described in my memo. In fact, it's not hugely different from what we were doing before I wrote the memo. But it's what we're capable of doing now with the staff and technical resources we have, and we'll be working to make people more aware of this feature. As we move closer to true open-source journalism (and once our Web-publishing system is updated), we'll take bigger steps, but for now, just click on the link and hit me with your best ideas.
Thanks!
