Uncategorized - by Patrick Thornton on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 15:45 - View Comments

Introducing the Leaderboard

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Today we’re announcing a big part of BeatBlogging 2.0, the Leaderboard. 

The Leaderboard will be a list of the most innovative beat reporters in the world. It will have links to their best work and write ups from us about how they go about innovating with Web tools. It will be dynamic, with new names appearing each week.

We’re excited for the Leaderboard, because not only will it be a great way to recognize the most innovative beat reporters, but it will also be a great tool for reporters and news organizations looking for ideas on how to innovate. 

Every day we’ll have nominees for the Leaderboard. This dynamic list of examples of beat reporters pushing the practice is updated throughout the day and appears in the middle column on the homepage. From that list, we’ll find the best examples and form a Leaderboard each week.

We can’t do this without you. We encourage you to send in links of innovative examples from beat reporters. We also encourage you to join our Publish2 group and submit links of your own.

We’re excited for the future of beat reporting, and we hope you will join us as we scour the World Wide Web looking for the most innovative and forward-thinking beat reporters. 

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BeatBlogging.org was a grant-funded journalism project that studied how journalists used social media and other Web tools to improve beat reporting. It ran for about two years, ending in the fall of 2009.

New content is occasionally produced here by the this project's former editor Patrick Thornton. The site is still up and will remain so because many journalists and professors still use and link to the content. BeatBlogging.org offers a fascinating glimpse into the former stages of journalism and social media. Today it's expected that journalists and journalism organization use social media, but just a few years ago that wasn't the case.

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