I consider Spot Us, which launched today, to be one of the more important news experiments out there right now.
For those just hearing of it now: The site, dreamed up and guided by the brilliant David Cohn, shares editorial power with the community. It can begin with a story pitch by a journalist, or a [...]

A simple task every reporter has to deal with: Brainstorming story ideas. In this case, I needed to seek out a little-known charity or organization to feature.
Instead of sitting around and hoping a good idea popped into my head, or maybe e-mailing a source or two and crossing my fingers, I put my question out [...]

Here’s a nice story by Laurie White for the American journalism Review: All the News That’s Fit to Tweet. Scroll down about halfway and you’ll see me quoted in this story about reporters who use Twitter.
Daniel Victor (@bydanielvictor), a reporter at the Harrisburg Patriot-News, says he was originally a Twitter skeptic, but is now a [...]

If you follow me on Twitter — which you should be doing — you’ve already heard this story. But for everyone else:
After covering a speech Howard Dean gave to an SEIU conference in Hershey, Pa., I had a one-on-one interview scheduled with him. Since he was short on time, I ended up teaming up with [...]

(For more on ONA as it’s happening, check for Tweets here. And I’ll be updating Twitter myself throughout the day. This is a quick, non-exhaustive recap as I don’t have much time before I need to catch my metro.)
Among the bloggers/Twitter users I’ve long talked to or read online and finally got to meet in [...]

(This is my contribution to the Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists blogring of young journalists. Our topic this month was to review our local newspaper’s Web site — but seeing as I work for the local newspaper and I am not dumb, I decided to switch papers with Meranda Watling, who has the same problem and [...]

Someone recently asked me if I’ve come across any future business models for journalism that I felt passionate about.
My response: Hmm. Hmmmmmm. Um. Let me think here. Uh…Uh….No, I guess not.
I could talk or blog up a storm about the innovative new content that news organizations need to provide, or the innovative ways to gather [...]