Comments on: Podcast: Fischer on leaving journalism and lessons learned from beatblogging http://beatblogging.org/2009/04/14/podcast-fischer-on-leaving-journalism-and-lessons-learned-from-beatblogging/ Pushing the practice of beat reporting Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:26:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Are newspaper just guessing on what to do? | The Journalism Iconoclast http://beatblogging.org/2009/04/14/podcast-fischer-on-leaving-journalism-and-lessons-learned-from-beatblogging/comment-page-1/#comment-4844 Are newspaper just guessing on what to do? | The Journalism Iconoclast Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:12:20 +0000 http://beatblogging.org/?p=3176#comment-4844 [...] Fischer told me that about a year ago newsroom managers at The Dallas Morning News approached reporters looking for volunteers to learn to shoot [...] [...] Fischer told me that about a year ago newsroom managers at The Dallas Morning News approached reporters looking for volunteers to learn to shoot [...]

]]> By: Sandy http://beatblogging.org/2009/04/14/podcast-fischer-on-leaving-journalism-and-lessons-learned-from-beatblogging/comment-page-1/#comment-4843 Sandy Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:59:05 +0000 http://beatblogging.org/?p=3176#comment-4843 The current situation is so depressing. I just finished reading a interview series on the future of journalism, that included the CSM editor, and its heart breaking. Yemma was talking about why csm went digital, they one journalist who was a former St. Petersburg Times reporter who got laid off, but BUILT the citizen journalism section the st. pete website.....I feel like crying. Highly recommend read: http://www.ourblook.com/The-Media/The-Future-of-Journalism.html The current situation is so depressing. I just finished reading a interview series on the future of journalism, that included the CSM editor, and its heart breaking. Yemma was talking about why csm went digital, they one journalist who was a former St. Petersburg Times reporter who got laid off, but BUILT the citizen journalism section the st. pete website…..I feel like crying. Highly recommend read:

http://www.ourblook.com/The-Media/The-Future-of-Journalism.html

]]> By: Kent Fischer, Dallas Morning News http://beatblogging.org/2009/04/14/podcast-fischer-on-leaving-journalism-and-lessons-learned-from-beatblogging/comment-page-1/#comment-4842 Kent Fischer, Dallas Morning News Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:06:41 +0000 http://beatblogging.org/?p=3176#comment-4842 Wanted to follow up on a point I made about 2/3 of the way into my interview with Pat, when I stated that I could count "on one hand" the number of times and editor offered to repurpose/repackage news on my blog for the paper. In retrospect, that was not a fair statement. When we first started out with the beatblog, it was true that editors just handed down mandates to turn blog posts into stories. But over the last several months that has changed. Both of my most-recent editors have been good at offering up ideas and suggestions on how to repackage the blog material for print. And lately, my newest editor has taken to doing some of the rewriting. It wasn't fair for me to state that it doesn't happen, because it does, and with greater frequency lately. Wanted to follow up on a point I made about 2/3 of the way into my interview with Pat, when I stated that I could count “on one hand” the number of times and editor offered to repurpose/repackage news on my blog for the paper. In retrospect, that was not a fair statement.

When we first started out with the beatblog, it was true that editors just handed down mandates to turn blog posts into stories. But over the last several months that has changed. Both of my most-recent editors have been good at offering up ideas and suggestions on how to repackage the blog material for print. And lately, my newest editor has taken to doing some of the rewriting.

It wasn’t fair for me to state that it doesn’t happen, because it does, and with greater frequency lately.

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