{"id":1927,"date":"2007-11-14T21:35:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T02:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/11\/14\/jay-rosen-launches-beatbloggingcom\/"},"modified":"2007-11-14T21:35:35","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T02:35:35","slug":"jay-rosen-launches-beatbloggingcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/11\/14\/jay-rosen-launches-beatbloggingcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Rosen launches Beatblogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NewAssignment.net creator and journalism prof Jay Rosen&#8217;s latest venture just went live: <a href=\"http:\/\/beatblogging.typepad.com\">Beatblogging<\/a> is an attempt to improve the coverage of specific news areas or &#8220;beats&#8221; by using social-media such as blogs and wikis. In effect, Jay and his team &#8212; led by the indefatigable David &#8220;DigiDave&#8221; Cohn &#8212; want to help beat reporters use &#8220;crowdsourcing&#8221; methods (like Jay&#8217;s project with Huffington Post, the political-reporting effort OffTheBus.com) to draw knowledge from various sources.<\/p>\n<p>The list of 13 participants is at Jay&#8217;s site, <a href=\"http:\/\/journalism.nyu.edu\/pubzone\/weblogs\/pressthink\/\">PressThink<\/a>, and also at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/idealab\/2007\/11\/thirteen-beat-reporters-to-bui.html\">MediaShift Idea Lab site<\/a> that is part of PBS. It includes Wired digital-music writer Eliot Van Buskirk, a science reporter at the Houston Chronicle, a public-school reporter at the Dallas Morning News, a basketball writer at ESPN.com and a technology reporter at the Seattle Times. The San Jose Mercury News has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynewsphoto.com\/rethink\/?p=32\">some thoughts<\/a> about why it&#8217;s taking part.<\/p>\n<p>I think Jay&#8217;s idea is brilliant, and it will be fascinating to see how it develops. I wish there were some Canadian newspaper reporters taking part.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewAssignment.net creator and journalism prof Jay Rosen&#8217;s latest venture just went live: Beatblogging is an attempt to improve the coverage of specific news areas or &#8220;beats&#8221; by using social-media such as blogs and wikis. In effect, Jay and his team &#8212; led by the indefatigable David &#8220;DigiDave&#8221; Cohn &#8212; want to help beat reporters use &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/11\/14\/jay-rosen-launches-beatbloggingcom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jay Rosen launches Beatblogging&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}