Comments on: I don’t care what journalists are reading; I care what they’re writing

By: Make Them Accountable / Media

Make Them Accountable / Media — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:13:31 +0000

[...] I don’t care what journalists are reading; I care what they’re writing (Ryan Sholin, thanks to Poynter Online) “I want to see trends develop on a large scale across the country (and yes, world) by tracking what stories journalists are working on. And then I want the people formerly known as the audience to have a space to vote for what they wish journalists were working on. Picture it as a mashup of Twitter and Digg, where reporters are constantly answering the question ‘What are you working on?’ in a broad way so as not to tip off their competition — or editors.” [...]

By: Science Fiction is Now « Media Judo

Science Fiction is Now « Media Judo — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:36:30 +0000

[...] me of ReportingOn, a project by Ryan Sholin. His idea is reporters can present short, general posts on what they’re doing, get feedback, [...]

By: Invisible Inkling » ReportingOn: An ever so slightly more detailed explanation

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:56:39 +0000

[...] This post was the beginning of the idea. [...]

By: Representative Journalism - Blog - Mix Twitter, Digg and Your Favorite Reporter

Representative Journalism - Blog - Mix Twitter, Digg and Your Favorite Reporter — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:11:30 +0000

[...] for use here. I got the idea after David Cohn referred me to Ryan Sholin at Invisible Inkling. He writes at one of his posts: I want the people formerly known as the audience to have a space to vote for what they wish [...]

By: Daniel Sato

Daniel Sato — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:42:43 +0000

I only used it for a little bit, so I could be mistaken, but I recall that Public Square HQ site as having a feature in which regular users could suggest new story ideas and whatnot and those suggestions could then be voted on and an editor could decide to assign that story to a writer on the back end.

By: Zac Echola is muffin but trouble » Will MinnPost.com work?

Zac Echola is muffin but trouble » Will MinnPost.com work? — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:49:13 +0000

[...] Read this [...]

By: Ron Sylvester

Ron Sylvester — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:53:39 +0000

This reminds me of the next generation of listservs, like the IRE, or the CJJ or Newspaper Video lists which I read every day. Only they would be public, open to where people can view them and critique them. A MySpace for journalists with working bulletins and a comments section. Where do I sign up?

By: Magnetbox - links for 2007-08-16

Magnetbox - links for 2007-08-16 — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:23:07 +0000

[...] I don’t care what journalists are reading; I care what they’re writing Interesting idea about tracking what stories journalists are working on, and how the audience could show their interest by voting on or adding to the potential future story. (tags: web news journalism idea future) [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:00:56 +0000

@Zac – Good point – I’m familiar with the iA wikiPost concept.

I’m not really thinking of this as a one-newspaper deal.

This would be an application for journalists all over the world to post the answer to ‘What are you working on?’ — Much closer to a social network for reporters than a pro-am deal.

The role of readers is to shout out suggestions – the collective intelligence of the amateurs will obviously point the pros in a direction.

I’ve got a pretty clear picture in my head. I’ll mockup something and post it when I have time.

By: Zac Echola

Zac Echola — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:53:39 +0000

There’s a great write up about a similar idea here:

http://www.informationarchitects.jp/newspaper-wiki-schematics

The problem with all these wacky new ideas is that they tend to fly in the face of the poor old graybeard editors still stuck in their top-down beliefs about news.