A couple of simple ideas that could transform news for the better

Amy Gahran pulls together a couple of recent threads from around the world of journalism and comes up with three ideas that could make for a new kind of reporting: --news collaboration --distributed reporting --collaboration on coverage to leverage strengths and resources She is saying that professional reporters could collaborate with bloggers, and different news organizations could split up the work of covering aspects of a story to produce layers or a range of coverage on an issue. I think the young audience, digital natives, care less about which news organization gets a story but they do like to get the kind of layered coverage that results from collaboration, distributed reporting and leveraging resources to really cover a story. If the technology is around now to embed "E-T call home" capability in our stories and media elements like John Perry Barlow suggested in "Old Wine in New Bottles" in 1992, then some of the problems of credit and attribution could be taken care of in a "Holovaty-esque" manner.