Social Media in Beat Reporting
November 14th, 2007 by Dan GillmorJay Rosen’s new experiment: These Beat Reporters Will Try the Social Network Way.
Thirteen sites want to see if it works: from the Houston Chronicle to the Patriot-News in Harrisburg, PA, plus ESPN.com, MTV, the Seattle Times… Some of the beats: Child welfare, Dallas public schools, “green” tech, Big Pharma, digital music, Procter & Gamble.
This is going to be an important test of new media. Can’t wait to see how it works.
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November 15th, 2007 at 7:29 am
I have two humble suggestions. One, since there are demonstrably already many beat-blogging-with-social-network efforts, it might have simpler to survey them at a distance first. The comments left on the BeatBlogging.org “wall” lend an air of collusion.
Two, I’d be curious to see what the planned metrics are. Two years ago I had put together a 4-part series Questions for Participatory Media which I left as an open model for any researcher to use.
November 18th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Dan– you’ve apparently attracted a spammer-commenter above who is so clever that he has copied the precise phrase from my 75-word comment above which contained a typo. The word “been” is missing between “have” and “simpler.”
November 18th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Got it, thanks.. (referring to now-deleted spam).