Will you Help us With a Story?

John Fleming

Bill Sanders, one of our freelancers, has an interesting story he wants to write. But we need your help to get it done.

Here is his story proposal and the place where you can go to help with it.

Here’s the thing. Gone are the days when an editor can throw an AP Stylebook across a newsroom and hit half a dozen beat reporters.

The changing industry, the economy, reality means fewer reporters. But that doesn’t mean the quality of reporting should suffer. Whatever the way of the industry, we’ll always adhere to strong journalism. We’ll get the facts and we’ll write with clarity.

Covering all the stories on the juvenile justice beat, though, is tougher. When you consider how big the subject is – everything from education to incarceration – we miss stories all the time. We simply can’t do it all with the staff and network of freelancers we have. But we’ll try anyway.

So we experiment, we look for ways to cover as much territory as possible, without breaking the budget.

One such experiment starts this week when Sanders posts on the website Spot.Us.