Network with those folks formerly known as audience

Jay Rosen tweeted about this post by Paul Bradshaw, who is always on top of the ways we connect to communicate today. Its not all about reporters anymore, but about reporters who network with sources and readers.

clipped from www.pressgazette.co.uk Blog investigations not all dog's dinner If you haven’t got the message yet, it is this: we are working within a networked publishing environment. Readers can unite, organisations can communicate directly with citizens, and we’re not dealing with lone whistleblowers any more – but with full-blown orchestras. Now I’m not peddling that old cliché that “everyone is a journalist” – but rather arguing that the process of journalism itself is increasingly open to deconstruction: the tools of researching, recording, publishing and distribution can now be broken up and distributed between teams of organised readers. A combination of “accidental bloggers” and readers mobilised to fill the gap. The Food and Drug Administration had been reporting fewer than 20 affected pets – bloggers managed to collate information on 5,000 cats and dogs that had been killed by the contaminated food.