Thirteen Beat Reporters to Build Social Networks
Two weeks ago I said at Idea Lab that NewAssignment.Net's third major project--after Assignment Zero and OffTheBus.Net--will be Beatblogging.org. My idea was to run parallel experiments to see whether "beat reporting with a social network" is a viable pro-am method in journalism-- or just an attractive concept. I said I was trying to recruit at least 12 beat reporters and get their editors on board with a simple proposition... Maybe a beat reporter could do a way better job if there was a "live" social network connected to the beat, made up of people who know the territory the beat...
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