Online reporting

The Online Journalism Review has a good introduction to online reporting on a wiki that it runs. As they point out, a lot of the time, when you're reporting a story online, you're going to use traditional methods - interviews, observation, document searches. You'll just do these in a slightly different way.

As the OJR point out, there are more radical approaches to reporting online that aim to take advantage of the collaborative aspect of the net - things like Open Source Reporting or Distributed reporting. We'll talk about this in class.

But if you want an example of a journalist writing about this kind of thing and attempting to put it into practice, try The See Through CEO, a story written by American tech journalist Clive Thompson for Wired Magazine. Before the story, he used his blog to talk about the story he was doing and ask for tips and afterwards he talked about how the experiment had gone.