Book bloggers vs. magazine book reviewers, newspaper gossip writers vs. gossip websites--we could make an endless list of the new media conflicts between print reporters and the online communities that love their beats.
NYU professor Jay Rosen has a better idea that could help online communities and beat journalists work together. He just signed up thirteen journalists for this experiment: "Maybe a beat reporter could do a way better job if there was a "live" social network connected to the beat, made up of people who know the territory the beat covers, and want the reporting on that beat to be better."
Since I have award ceremonies on the brain, Steve Bryant's post about the web video award show, The Winnies, caught my fancy. These are strange new days for writers and content creators, so why not create strange new ways of celebrating their work?
Check it out--an awards show that lets everybody win a highly personalized award.
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