Here is a list of beat reporters pushing the practice of beat reporting with social media, blogs and other Web tools.

Alexander Russo | District 299

Brian Krebs | Security Fix

Brian Stelter | TV Decoder

Daniel Bassill | Tutor Mentor Connection

Daniel Victor | The Patriot-News

Alexander Russo | District 299

• Blog: District 299 is a blog covering the Chicago school district. It’s main goal is to foster a conversation. Russo refers to District 299 as a “gathering place” for news about the school district.
• Beat: Education in Chicago
• Bio: Russo is a Spencer Fellow at Columbia University. He not affiliated with a mainstream media organization and both of his blogs are independent. He also runs the This Week in Education blog.
• BeatBlogging.Org content: Leaderboard nominations and other content
• Buzz words: Education, education policy, Chicago, District 299
• Social networks: Twitter

Brian Krebs | Security Fix

• Blog: Security Fix is a Washington Post internet security blog aimed at the Average Joe computer user who is struggling to keep up with everything they need to know to remain relatively safe online. Many of its readers are quite knowledgeable, however, and contribute a lot to the conversation in the comments after each post.
• Beat: Computer security and IT
• Bio: Krebs joined The Washington Post Company in 1995 and has been writing about technology and computer security since 2000. A graduate of George Mason University, he lives in Annandale with his wife Jennifer. In his spare time, Krebs tinkers with five computers and dozens of other chirping, blinking devices.
• BeatBlogging.Org content: Leaderboard nominations and other content
• Buzz words: Tech policy, security, internet, computers
• Social networks: LinkedIn

Brian Stelter | TV Decoder

• Blog: TV Decoder is a New York Times guide to television blog about what’s on, who’s watching and why it matters. The blog covers the day’s on-screen and behind-the-scenes developments, with insights into Nielsen ratings and the machinations of the TV industry.
• Beat: Television and Media Industry
• Bio: Stelter, 23, is a media reporter for the New York Times and the former editor of the news-related blog TVNewser.com. Stelter graduated from Towson University in May 2007 and joined The New York Times as a media reporter in July.
• BeatBlogging.Org content: Leaderboard nominations and other content
• Buzz words: Television, news, media
• Social networks: Facebook | LinkedIN | Twitter | Website

Daniel Bassill | Tutor Mentor Connection

• Blog: The Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) seeks to connect people who from around the world with information and networks that help support the growth of comprehensive, volunteer based tutor/mentor programs.
• Beat: Education and school reform
• Bio: Bassill has led a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program for more than 30 years. It is called Cabrini Connections. He helps inner city kids connect with adults who help them out of poverty by helping them stay in school. He launched the Tutor/Mentor Connection in 1994 to help programs like Cabrini Connections grow in every high poverty neighborhood of Chicago.
• BeatBlogging.Org content: Leaderboard nominations and other content
• Buzz words: Tutoring, mentoring, activism, volunteer, non-profit, education, reform, schools, children, poverty, Chicago, charity, philanthropy, social justice, youth development
• Social networks: Facebook | LinkedIN | Publish2

Daniel Victor | The Patriot-News

• Blog: Victor created a Ning community for Hershey, PA (Hershey Home) where he monitors conversations and uses them to add context and background to his local beat reporting. He’s intent on there being a future for journalism, and on him being around for it.
• Beat: Mobile journalist, local
• Bio: Victor, 24, is a reporter for The (Harrisburg, Pa.) Patriot-News. He previously wrote for the Centre Daily Times while attending Penn State, and also enjoyed a summer internship at The Wichita (Kan.) Eagle. He’s now trying his hand at mobile journalism, and he’s convinced that community-building and crowdsourcing are the two biggest keys to journalism’s future.
• BeatBlogging.Org content: Leaderboard nominations and other content
• Buzz words: Beatblogging, mobile journalism, Hershey, Pennsylvania, politics, new media, social media, crowdsourcing, campaign reporting, liveblogging
• Social networks: Facebook | LinkedIN | Twitter | Website

Dave Levinthal | Dallas City Hall Blog

• Blog: The Dallas City Hall Blog (Dallas Morning News) is a haven for political and government news junkies. It’s the place to go for both in-depth features and up-to-the-second tidbits about Dallas city news and Dallas political news.
  
• Beat: Local government
• Bio: Levinthal is a reporter for the Dallas Morning news. Coverage areas include Dallas City Hall and Texas politics. Previously, he covered aviation security and safety issues. Levinthal was also a New Hampshire Statehouse and political reporter at The Eagle-Tribune and The Tonawanda News.
• BeatBlogging.Org content: Leaderboard nominations and other content
• Buzz words: Dallas City Hall, Texas, politics, government, aviation security, safety, Dallas city council, metro
• Social networks: Facebook | LinkedIN | Twitter

Eric Berger | SciGuy

• Blog: Sci Guy is a Houston Chronicle science blog that proved its value during Hurricane Rita, when it was accessed more than 50,000 times daily. Based upon feedback from readers, many found it a valuable place to find answers to questions and links to Web resources.
  
• Beat: Science
• Bio: Berger is a science beat reporter and blogger at the Houston Chronicle who has successfully managed to build a community and interact with the readers of his blog, SciGuy. Berger has been a reporter at the Chron since 1997. His two goals with the SciGuy blog: to become the place to talk about science and research happening in Houston, including input from local scientists, and to a lesser extent Texas; secondly, he wants to engage more people by providing interesting little insights about science, hopefully drawing them into an exciting, but perhaps an imposing topic.
• BeatBlogging.Org content: Leaderboard nominations and other content
• Buzz words: atmosphere, climate, science, cosmos, space, evolution, astronomy, biology, chemistry, energy, environment, genetics, health, hurricanes, medicine, nanotechology, sociology, the future, weather
• Social networks: LinkedIN | Twitter

Etan Horowitz | Etan on Tech

• Blog: Etan on Tech is an Orlando Sentinel blog that covers technology with an emphasis on providing tips and tricks for the average user. Etan writes a weekly item called How 2 as well as stories about the local tech scene.
• Beat: Technology & gadgets
• Bio: Horowitz, 26, has been the technology columnist and reporter at the Orlando Sentinel since June 2007. He covers technology culture, trends and local companies and also writes a weekly personal technology column called “User’s Guide” as well as a weekly feature called “How 2.” Both items appear each Sunday in the “Tech & Money” section. He shoots, edits and appears in videos for the newspaper’s website and writes a technology blog called Etan on Tech. He grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs and graduated from the University of Maryland. Horowitz lives in Orlando with his wife, Sentinel reporter Daphne Sashin.
• BeatBlogging.Org content: Leaderboard nominations and other content
• Buzz words: Technology, gadgets, cell phones, computer culture, electronics, Facebook, Google, Orlando, GPS, internet safety, iPhone, local tech community, Microsoft, social networking, wi-fi, web 2.0
• Social networks: Facebook | LinkedIN | Twitter

Gene Sloan | Cruise Log Blog

• Blog: Cruise Log is a USA Today blog that posts the latest news, reviews, and deals from the Cruise Ship industry to people around the world.
• Beat: Cruises & Travel
• Bio: Gene Sloan is the cruise editor for USA Today. He liveblogs from events around the world and each week Sloan asks readers to send in tips on a cruise-related issue.
  
• BeatBlogging.Org content: Leaderboard nominations and other content
• Buzz words: Cruise, travel, vacation, adventure cruising, Caribbean, family, world cruises
• Social networks: Twitter

Jon Ortiz | The State Worker

• Blog: The State Worker is a The Sacramento Bee blog about civil-service life, workplace and labor issues for California state workers. This blog posts continuous updates and articles on state pay, benefits, pensions, contracts and jobs.
• Beat: State government & workers
• Bio: Ortiz has been a member of The Bee’s business staff since 2003. He uses his blog to crowd source opinions on what it’s like to be back after a day of being furloughed. Due to the budget crisis in California, it’s mandatory for state workers to take several furlough days. Ortiz wants to know what morale is like now that furloughs have officially begun.
• BeatBlogging.Org content: Leaderboard nominations and other content
• Buzz words: California, government, state work, civil service, labor, pensions, jobs, benefits, contracts, furloughs, lawsuits, layoffs, legislature, SEIU, unions, elected state workers, workplace
• Social networks: LinkedIN | Publish2

Kent Fischer | DISD Blog

• Blog: Dallas ISD is a blog for Dallas Morning News coverage of the Dallas Independent School District.
• Beat: Education
• Bio: Fischer has covered the Dallas city schools for the Dallas Morning News since 2003. In January ‘08, he joined the beatblogging.org project and launched a Dallas schools blog, where he now blogs his beat while still contributing to the paper. Fischer has also covered education over the years for the St. Pete Times, Lexington Herald-Leader and the Concord Monitor in NH.
• BeatBlogging.Org content: Leaderboard nominations and other content
• Buzz words: Dallas, politics, educations, schools, Texas, administration, board of trustees, crime, reform, student achievement, student life, teaching, classroom
• Social networks: Facebook | LinkedIN | Twitter

Mary Louise Schumacher | Art City

• Blog: Art City is a blog for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Art and architecture critic Mary Louise Schumacher explores Milwaukee’s creative endeavors.
• Beat: Art
• Bio: Schumacher writes about art, architecture and urban design. Art City is a multi-platform feature that includes a newspaper column, a blog, video podcasts, a weekly e-mail newsletter and many forms of multimedia. Schumacher levereged social networking tools to build an audience around my beat, to bring readers’ points of view into the publication and to become a better reporter.
• BeatBlogging.Org content: Leaderboard nominations and other content
• Buzz words: Visual art, visual culture, art, architecture, urban design, contemporary culture, art history, arts journalism, new media, the Midwest, Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• Social networks: Facebook | LinkedIN | Twitter

Matt Neznanski | Between the Lines | Green City

• Blog: Between the Lines is a Corvallis Gazette Times blog that covers local news bits, links and questions for Corvallis, Oregon. It’s a “conversation with people around Corvallis and Benton County who’ve got information they want to share.” Also, Green City is local blog about green living in Oregon. This blog looks for local people doing inspiring things to foster sustainability.
• Beat: Local, green living
• Bio: Neznanski is a journalist and a strategist. He is particularly interested in working to return news organizations to vital, profitable businesses through innovation and relevance. As a reporter for the Corvallis Gazette Times, Matt Neznanski covers local government in Corvallis, OR and is tightly focused on figuring out how to open up the beat and the coverage to the Web.
• BeatBlogging.Org content: Leaderboard nominations and other content
• Buzz words: Government, campaign, entertainment, schools, GA, blogging, hyperlocal, practical solutions, strategies, green living, Corvallis, Benton Country, Oregon, city, metro, local business
• Social networks: Facebook | LinkedIN | Twitter

Melissa Coulter | Quadsville

• Blog: Quadsville is a Quad-City Times blog/social network. It’s is an online community for people, groups and businesses in the Quad-Cities area of Iowa and Illinois. Quadsville is a civic social network for people, groups and businesses located in the Quad-Cities area of Iowa and Illinois.
• Beat: Community engagement
• Bio: Melissa Coulter is the Mayor of Quadsville. She is the mayor, instead of editor or producer or whatever because Quadsville is based around a civic model. She is not so much trying to steer content or conversations as much as she is trying to make people want to interact more. At Quadsville, Melissa Coulter aims to foster a local community dedicated to discussion and expression. The site is dedicated to the stories and thoughts that happen around or adjacent to those events. At Quadsville, every person has a personal blog, photo gallery, video gallery, and a profile.
• BeatBlogging.Org content: Leaderboard nominations and other content
• Buzz words: Illinois, Quadsville, Quad city, social networking, hyperlocal, community, sharing, crowdsourcing, new media
• Social networks: Facebook | Twitter

Monica Guzman | The Big Blog

• Blog: The Big Blog is a Seattle Post-Intelligencer blog. Inspired by the city beats of Seattlest, Metroblogging Seattle, and, most famously, the Slog, the Big Blog takes a more conversational, informal and fun look at the news and culture that makes this city what it is.
• Beat: Seattle
• Bio: Guzman joined the P-I in January 2007 as a Hearst Newspapers Fellow, coering the culture of technology in a weekly column and a blog, Net Native. She took on the P-I’s Big Blog last July. She’s also what you might call an online news evangelist — giving talks about the future of journalism like this speedy guide she gave at Ignite Seattle on how to be an awesome news story commenter. On Big Blog, Guzman invites her readers to submit tips, connect on social networks, submit “news pics” and meet for weekly hangouts.
• BeatBlogging.Org content: Leaderboard nominations and other content
• Buzz words: Seattle, news, arts, culture, talk, local, metro, citizen, news, conversation, journalism
• Social networks: Twitter

Multiple authors | Child Welfare Issues

• News org: News-Press
• Beat: Child welfare

John C. Abell & Multiple authors | Epicenter

• Blog: Epicenter is a Wired.com blog. “Wired’s take on the business of tech and social media.”
  
• Beat: Business & technology
• Bio: John Abell is the New York City Bureau Chief for Wired.com and he directs their tech biz coverage. Previously, Abell worked at Reuters where he built the Internet’s first real-time news feed, created Reuters’ multimedia desk and was the founding editor of Reuters.com.
• Buzz words: Business, technology, social media, Google, broadband, browsers, AT&T, AOL, conferences, Copyright, Current Affairs, Deals, e-Bay, Facebook, Funding, hardware, hype, legal, media, Microsoft, mobile, search, television, venture, web/tech, web apps, Yahoo, YouTube
• Social networks: Facebook | LinkedIN | Twitter | Website

Ron Sylvester | What the Judge Ate for Breakfast

• Blog: What the Judge Ate for Breakfast is a Wichita Eagle blog about the news from inside Wichita’s courts.
• Beat: Courts & legal reporting
• Bio: Sylvester has covered courts and legal affairs for the Wichita Eagle since 2000. His past coverage has included the Carr Brothers’ murder trial, court confession of Dennis Rader as the BTK serial killer and other stories that give him, and his readers, nightmares. During a journalism career spanning three decades, Ron has covered beats ranging from sports to arts and entertainment, interviewing personalities such as George Brett and Johnny Cash along the way.
• BeatBlogging.Org content: Leaderboard nominations and other content
• Buzz words: Courts, judicial, government, criminal, law, politics, trial, Wichita, local
• Social networks: Facebook | LinkedIN | Twitter | Website

Stephanie DePasquale | Out and About

• Blog: Out and About is a Quad-City Times blog about local entertainment in the Quad-Cities from Entertainment Reporter Stephanie De Pasquale.
• Beat: Entertainment
• Bio: Stephanie DePasquale is an entertainment reporter for the Quad-City Times. She also blogs about dogs at To The Dogs.
• BeatBlogging.Org content: Leaderboard nominations and other content
• Buzz words: Quadsville, clubs, nightclubs, bars, jazz, nightlife, music, movies, teens, books, restaurants, benefit, art, television, comedy, entertainment, media, local
• Social networks: Facebook | LinkedIN

Tannette Johnson-Elie | Journal Sentinel

• Blog: Connections is the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s business blog.
• Beat: Business
• Bio: Johnson-Elie is a business columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She has extensive knowledge on issues and topics related to minority business, diversity and race and economics. At the Journal Sentinel she is responsible for writing a weekly column called Connections that explores how small businesses and start-ups are using networking and business associations to tap the expertise needed to grow.
• BeatBlogging.Org content: Leaderboard nominations and other content
• Buzz words: Small business, entrepreneur, branding, networking, markets, connections
• Social networks: Facebook | LinkedIN | Twitter

Tawnell Hobbs | DISD Blog

• Blog: Dallas ISD is a blog for Dallas Morning News coverage of the Dallas Independent School District.
• Beat: Education
• BeatBlogging.Org content: Leaderboard nominations and other content
• Buzz words: Dallas, politics, educations, schools, Texas, administration, board of trustees, crime, reform, student achievement, student life, teaching, classroom

Pharmalot

• News org: The Star-Ledger
• Beat: Pharma
• BeatBlogging.Org content: Leaderboard nominations and other content