Feb 15, 2009
New at IdeaLab: Defining the terms of the ReportingOn pitch
Over at IdeaLab, I’ve posted an update on what I’m calling “Phase 2″ of ReportingOn’s development.
The short version:
If ReportingOn is the backchannel for your beat, and journalists of all stripes are welcome, it’s time to put some solid definitions behind the terms backchannel, beat, journalists, and all stripes in order to draw some straight lines from ideas to functionality on the new site.
Here’s a sample:
Beat:
In the most traditional newspaper sense of the word, a beat is the topical or geographical area a journalist covers. In a university town, a reporter might cover higher education. A neighborhood blogger might consider a radius of a few blocks their geographical beat. Connecting journalists covering similar topical beats across all barriers and borders remains one of the key goals of ReportingOn.
Read the whole thing at IdeaLab.
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