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Generating Ideas and Finding Experts
If we break the newsgathering process into its most fundamental elements, we see three parts to the process: a journalist gets an idea, finds information to develop that idea (via interviews, online research, and documents to name a few of the sources), and then writes the story. The newsgathering process is more sophisticated than this simplistic view, but for the moment we will use it to kick-start the process of finding ideas.
Fledgling journalists often report problems with the first stage of the process, generating story ideas. Even seasoned reporters occasionally find their minds blank. When deadlines loom, it is easy to select stories in press releases or from the usual agenda of council meetings, ...
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