Article: Blogging communities spurred to action: 'coverage of civil rights and social justice issues could be made the core of a digital news organization, national or global in scope.'.(Spreading the News: Impact and Engagement)(Viewpoint essay)

This could be the finest era to be a journalist. My daughter, Emily Witt, a recent graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, got a summer gig at ProPublica. Her first coauthored story highlighted proposed cuts to California's state crime lab and was picked up by The Huffington Post. Within 24 hours there were 177 comments. Think back just 10 years: To write a story and receive 177 letters would have been a miracle. Frankly, it never happened in my 30-year career.

Veteran reporter Howard Witt, this time no relation, experienced his own social media miracle. Working out of the Chicago Tribune's Houston bureau, he wrote a story about ...

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