Next “Lessons From Reporters” – You Tell Me Who I should Talk To

As we move into the next phase we are going to continue to rely on the words of advice from other journalists/bloggers.

Don’t forget to see the wrap-up of what we learned the first two weeks.

And now I’m looking for your help.

There is a lot out there. If know of a journalist who is engaging in this type of reporting – let me know by leaving a comment below.

OR

Here are the leads I have so far on who I’m going to look into next. It’s a big list. Let me know if there is something that particularly catches your eye and you want me to pay particular attention to.

NewMediaBytes has a fantastic list of the "Best Newspaper blogs for comments, community and readability."

Not all of them deserve our attention – but when I scroll through the list and I hear about

• Spokesman-Review’s News is a Conversation: Written by the editor of the The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash.,
  this blog discusses why and how stories are chosen for publication

and

• Atlanta-Journal Constitution’s Get Schooled: This blog’s community is very active. One reason may be because the
  writer invites readers to comment through the use of leading questions
  and updates.

I start to think that each of these, although they might not be doing beat blogging in full, each hold small lessons for us. If you want me to look into them. Just comment.

Also: Thanks to David Mastio from BlogNetNews who writes:

Here are a few examples of editorial pages that have been doing something like beatblogging before beatblogging was a term

• Dallas Morning News — I’m told the blog is regularly used to discuss issues with locals that end up as editorials.
• Editorial page editor of the Des Moines Register – who prints parts of the editorials that will run the next day, opening the
  possibility that readers can get their views in before the editorials
  are published.
•   Seattle Post-Intelligencer runs a virtual editorial board blog
  inviting readers to share their thoughts before editorials are
  published.
• Kansas City unfettered letters – a new way to do letters to the editor.

OR: If you want me to look into any of the tools from this great list – I’ll gladly look into those too.
 
So if you want to guide me towards anything interesting – now is your chance (I’ll continue to track these and other leads in the new year).