Journalists: Social Networking Is Good For You

NYU’s Jay Rosen is launching an ambitious project to have journalists integrate social networking into their beats. It’s called Beat Blogging and regardless of the bad beatboxing pun… the idea behind it is kind of genius.

Basically, reporters who cover beats are being encouraged to assemble a circle of experts in their field who can offer tips and monitor coverage via the site. Easy advice for the journos and such. Here’s the list of initial journalists participating in the project, via Rosen:

  • Houston Chronicle, with Eric Berger doing a reported blog about science.

  • Star-Ledger of Newark, with Ed Silverman news blogging on the pharmaceutical industry.

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