'Beatblogging' On Technology Issues
Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at New York University, has brainstormed a trio of journalistic innovations into the existence the past year. The new project, Beatblogging.org, went online yesterday, and elements of it will appeal to the technology crowd.
The concept behind Beatblogging is to connect beat reporters with social networks of experts in specific topics who can help them do their jobs better. To test the theory, Rosen recruited about a dozen beat reporters from newsrooms across the country whose editors are on board with the idea.
As it turns out, six of the participating beat reporters will be focused on science and technology topics. The reporters and their topics are:
-- Eric Berger of the Houston Chronicle, science
-- Eliot Van Buskirk of Wired.com, digital music
-- Michelle Davis of Education Week’s Digital Directions, technology in the K-12 classroom
-- Brier Dudley of The Seattle Times, Northwest technology companies, like Microsoft and RealNetworks.
-- Matt Nauman of The Mercury News, energy and "green" technology
-- And Stephen Totilo of MTV News, videogames and their makers
You can get more details on each of those projects at Rosen's PressThink blog and follow their coverage over the next year at the Beatblogging site.
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