Save The Naugas! » Blogs http://savethenaugas.com/blog Don't Hide, Come Stay at the Naugas Resort! Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:55:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 How Journalists Find Information Sources http://savethenaugas.com/blog/2009/05/02/how-journalists-find-information-sources/ http://savethenaugas.com/blog/2009/05/02/how-journalists-find-information-sources/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 06:50:17 +0000 admin http://savethenaugas.com/blog/?p=139 Everyone has been talking about the swine / H1N1 flu on the television news, newspapers, radio…you can’t get away from the news. Experts are being interviewed by reporters right and left. We have a journalist staying with us this evening, and he explained how journalism finds all these experts to interview.

He said that reporters, anchormen and anchorwomen, 60-minutes staff, newspaper employees, bloggers…they all go to websites that match up reporters and sources. Sources are the experts, and reporters try to find them to get an exclusive interview.

He said that his Rolodex, friends and Craigslist ads will carry him only so far, so the reporters and sources linking websites are an important tool for him to bring us the news.

Now if he would only bring news that those swine flu bugs are laying off, I would be a lot more relaxed.

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