This may be one of the most important stories on journalism that you read in a long time. Read the whole thing, because it’s, as they story says, a quiet revolution.
Sometimes all you need is a few Tweets, a bunch of links, and some like-minded pioneers.
That’s how a quiet revolution began in Washington state Wednesday. Four journalists spontaneously launched one of the first experiments in collaborative (or networked) link journalism to cover a major local story.
But it gets better. Those four journalists weren’t in the same newsroom. In fact, they all work for different media companies. And here’s the best part: Some of them have never even met in person.
The story says that each of these journalists work at different news organizations. Yet they worked together to break a huge story while maintaining communication over Twitter.
And it worked.
You are going to see more of this. And you should because it worked effectively.
Kudos.
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