Changes in reporting practices?

Meanwhile, a trend worth watching is companies forming to do reporting for others – both for paid clients and some nonprofit companies offering their wares to others, such as ProForma, which announced it is adding seven experienced investigative reporters to its staff that it plans to hit 25 investigative reporters (today’s announcement is at www.emediawire.com/releases/2008/6/prweb996334.htm). I’m not dismissing new ideas in how to report, such as the California web site that has outsourced its reporting to a company in India (Editor & Publisher story at www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003583803).

My friend Rick Horowitz has won national awards as a political columnist writing about national affairs for syndication while living in Milwaukee. He says he works just the same as he did when he started his column in Washington: he watches C-Span, reads the Washington Post, visits sources on a regular basis, and uses the telephone.

I think there are opportunities in aggregating reporting similar to how community newspapers have aggregated their copy editing functions where one copy desk handles a number of newspapers.

Change happens.