The Evolving Newsroom

From another Beat Blogging post comes Venture Beat reporter Eric Eldon's explanation of how he uses Facebook to find stories. Kicks in around halfway down. Well worth a read.

Nice bit of advice from Eric. He says reporters "have to look around and figure out where their readers are online. If people are on MySpace - go there. If they are on a random forum, that's where you have to be. You can't just think like a reporter, you have to think like you are part of the community. You are not cut off from the rest of the world."

Well said.

I'm not a reporter anymore so haven't tried finding stories on social networks. Have you? If so, let us know, I'd be really interested to learn how you're going about it.