Comments on: Blog your beat to connect with your audience http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/2008/03/10/blog-your-beat-to-connect-with-your-audience/ Thoughts from a technologist and journalist Wed, 09 May 2012 14:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kent Fischer http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/2008/03/10/blog-your-beat-to-connect-with-your-audience/comment-page-1/#comment-2668 Kent Fischer Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:05:58 +0000 http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/?p=208#comment-2668 "Then once she has gathered all the information for the day and sorted through it all she can begin to write a good, in-depth analysis piece for the print addition." As reporter who is beat blogging for the Dallas Morning News (http://dallasisdblog.dallasnews.com), I agree with everything in this post except for the sentence quoted above. The blog posting, the Twittering, the Facebooking (all of which I do) is a FULL days work in and of itself, for starters. Turning all that into something for the print edition requires still more reporting, vetting, verifying etc. of everything that came in via the network. It all still must be expertly sourced, and that's the rub. “Then once she has gathered all the information for the day and sorted through it all she can begin to write a good, in-depth analysis piece for the print addition.”

As reporter who is beat blogging for the Dallas Morning News (http://dallasisdblog.dallasnews.com), I agree with everything in this post except for the sentence quoted above. The blog posting, the Twittering, the Facebooking (all of which I do) is a FULL days work in and of itself, for starters. Turning all that into something for the print edition requires still more reporting, vetting, verifying etc. of everything that came in via the network. It all still must be expertly sourced, and that’s the rub.

]]> By: Why I’m beatblogging: To make all of my reporting better (and easier) | By Daniel Victor http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/2008/03/10/blog-your-beat-to-connect-with-your-audience/comment-page-1/#comment-2568 Why I’m beatblogging: To make all of my reporting better (and easier) | By Daniel Victor Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:05:56 +0000 http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/?p=208#comment-2568 [...] Journalism Iconoclast is behind the concept, calling you an idiot if you’re a sports reporter who isn’t on the [...] [...] Journalism Iconoclast is behind the concept, calling you an idiot if you’re a sports reporter who isn’t on the [...]

]]> By: Break up the newspapers - go niche! | New Media Bytes | Online journalism, web production and promotion http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/2008/03/10/blog-your-beat-to-connect-with-your-audience/comment-page-1/#comment-2563 Break up the newspapers - go niche! | New Media Bytes | Online journalism, web production and promotion Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:47:28 +0000 http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/?p=208#comment-2563 [...] Pat Thorton is the latest to call for reporters to translate their beat to the web. But he’s not the first. [...] [...] Pat Thorton is the latest to call for reporters to translate their beat to the web. But he’s not the first. [...]

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