Link or sink: linking news for efficient coverage.

Posted by Bhamini .N on January 9, 2009 at 11:50 AM

Four journalists from different media companies in different locations demonstrated how link journalism is the key to efficient news coverage. Using Twitter and a couple of links, they collaborated from different newsrooms to cover the floods in western Washington, Publishing 2.0 reported.

Elaine Helm, new media editor at The Herald, collaborated with three other journalists in different parts of the country to launch a Twitter feed to pool coverage of the floods, avalanches, evacuations and the closed highways. With newspapers depending increasingly on the internet, link journalism takes advantage of unlimited writing space on the internet. Scott Karp recently wrote for Publishing 2.0 to explain how linking can change the face of online journalism.

Publishing 2.0 talked of the advantages of link journalism back in October when they argued how newsrooms must integrate it to become more efficient.

Sources : Publishing 2.0