Beatblogging. What’s a Beat Blog?
A beat blog in the expansive sense is any blog that sticks to a well-defined beat or coverage area, whether it is the work of a single person or a team, whether it is authored by a pro or an amateur journalist. A beat blog can be part of a large site, or it could stand on its own. Normally, the beat is explicit and obvious from the home page of the blog, but it is possible for a beat blog to have an “implicit” or unusual beat that isn’t immediately apparent to a casual user. Content-wise, a beat blog presents a regular flow of reporting and commentary in a focused area the beat covers; it provides links and online resources in that area, and it tracks the subject over time. Beats can be topical (like dot.earth, which is about natural resources and the environment) or narrowly geographic (West Seattle blog) or both (Atlantic Yards Report) or activity-related (Family Life, which is about “raising a family.”)
What We Look For: What You Can Do to Help: Talking Points Memo Story - NYT. Of the many landmarks along a journalist’s career, two are among those that stand out: winning an award and making the government back down.
Last week, Joshua Micah Marshall achieved both. On Tuesday, it was announced that he had won a George Polk Award for legal reporting for coverage of the firing of eight United States attorneys, critics charged under political circumstances. The “tenacious investigative reporting sparked interest by the traditional news media and led to the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales,” the citation read. Also last week, the Justice Department put him back on its mailing list for reporters with credentials after removing him last year. Mr. To scores of bloggers, it was a case of local boy makes good.
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One morning last December, Tom Callinan, editor of The Cincinnati Enquirer, walked into his office to discover a package from his bosses at Gannett, the company that owns the Enquirer and 84 other dailies across the US. When he opened the box, he had to smile. It was a pair of Nike running shoes. The note from Gannett newspaper division president Sue Clark-Johnson was succinct: "Since our work is far from over, I thought you might need a new pair for '07.
" Callinan — and all the other top editors who received shoes that week — got the point: The nation's largest newspaper chain was in deep trouble, and the editors had better get ready to run fast. In case you missed the headlines , the ink-on-paper daily news business is in the middle of a long, painful, and seemingly irreversible decline. Gannett's execs were painfully aware of the crisis. By March 2006, the pieces were in place. In May, Maness and Carroll went on tour. Spot.us: community funded reporting. Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky. CNN iReport. NowPublic. From 27 December 2013 site was closed and the domain is redirected to www.examiner.com.
In addition to content contributed by users, NowPublic had a content-sharing agreement with the Associated Press. [citation needed] Time magazine named NowPublic.com one of the Top 50 websites of 2007.[1] In 2009, the site was nominated for an Emmy in Advanced Technology. Co-Founder Michael E. Meyers Co-founder Michael Tippett Co-founder Leonard Brody Financing[edit] On July 30, 2007, a Canadian national daily, The Globe and Mail, announced that NowPublic Technologies had closed a US$10.6 million round of financing from North American venture capital groups, following several takeover offers.
See also[edit] Notes[edit] External links[edit] Neighbors Go. MyCommunityNOW. Public Insight Network. PIN Input to Texas Drought Story. Texas Drought PBS NewsHour. Mayor John Jacobs of Robert Lee, Texas; NewsHour photo by Saskia de Melker ROBERT LEE, Texas | All the cars in this town are dirty.
Gripped by drought, the lake that has provided the town’s only source of water has just about dried up — as of last month, it was less than 1 percent full. And as a result, residents are prohibited from using water to wash cars, water trees and lawns and irrigate plants. Of course, dirty cars are the least of their concern. It’s become a question of survival. “I never take a bath, take a shower, wash a load of clothes, that I don’t think, save water.” The town is now racing to finish construction on a 12-mile emergency pipeline to pull water from the neighboring town of Bronte before they run out completely. 55163Texas Towns Run Out of Water As Drought Takes Its TollIn collaboration with KUT's State Impact Texas, the NewsHour takes a closer look at the struggle for water in two Texas towns and how the state plans to meet a drier future.