Comments on: OJR on Reporters & E-mail: Where’s the RSS? http://www.contentious.com/2003/10/28/ojr-on-reporters-e-mail-wheres-the-rss/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:54:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Amy Gahran http://www.contentious.com/2003/10/28/ojr-on-reporters-e-mail-wheres-the-rss/#comment-64 Amy Gahran Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://contentious.com/archives/2003/10/28/ojr-on-reporters-e-mail-wheres-the-rss#comment-64 Thanks for stopping by to comment, Mark. You wrote: >Indeed OJR has covered RSS feeds a couple times before. I'm sure some journalists use them, but this story was focused on how journalists use email in two-way communication with others, more than anything.I doubt journalists would rely on RSS to hear from sources or get PR pitches, or to run interviews.From what I know, RSS is still in an early adopter phase, and most journalists probably don't even know what it is.< True, so far. But I recently spoke about RSS feeds at the annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists (http://www.sej.org), and many of my colleagues there were intrigued by the possibilities and now are learning to use RSS feeds. The problem there is not that the journalists aren't interested, but rather that so far not enough sources are publishing RSS feeds that would be useful to journalists. And that can change quickly once journalists start asking (or insisting) that sources publish useful news and info by RSS. All in my humble opinion, of course! Your mileage may vary. - Amy Gahran Editor, CONTENTIOUS Thanks for stopping by to comment, Mark.

You wrote:
>Indeed OJR has covered RSS feeds a couple times before. I’m sure some journalists use them, but this story was focused on how journalists use email in two-way communication with others, more than anything.I doubt journalists would rely on RSS to hear from sources or get PR pitches, or to run interviews.From what I know, RSS is still in an early adopter phase, and most journalists probably don’t even know what it is.<

True, so far. But I recently spoke about RSS feeds at the annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists (http://www.sej.org), and many of my colleagues there were intrigued by the possibilities and now are learning to use RSS feeds.

The problem there is not that the journalists aren’t interested, but rather that so far not enough sources are publishing RSS feeds that would be useful to journalists. And that can change quickly once journalists start asking (or insisting) that sources publish useful news and info by RSS.

All in my humble opinion, of course! Your mileage may vary.

- Amy Gahran
Editor, CONTENTIOUS

]]> By: Mark Glaser http://www.contentious.com/2003/10/28/ojr-on-reporters-e-mail-wheres-the-rss/#comment-65 Mark Glaser Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://contentious.com/archives/2003/10/28/ojr-on-reporters-e-mail-wheres-the-rss#comment-65 Amy, Indeed OJR has covered RSS feeds a couple times before. I'm sure some journalists use them, but this story was focused on how journalists use email in two-way communication with others, more than anything. I doubt journalists would rely on RSS to hear from sources or get PR pitches, or to run interviews. From what I know, RSS is still in an early adopter phase, and most journalists probably don't even know what it is. However, anything that will help alleviate email overload would be welcome. My 2 cents. Mark Amy,
Indeed OJR has covered RSS feeds a couple times before. I’m sure some journalists use them, but this story was focused on how journalists use email in two-way communication with others, more than anything. I doubt journalists would rely on RSS to hear from sources or get PR pitches, or to run interviews.
From what I know, RSS is still in an early adopter phase, and most journalists probably don’t even know what it is. However, anything that will help alleviate email overload would be welcome.
My 2 cents.
Mark

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