(This post is the third in News.me's ongoing series, "Getting the News." In our efforts to understand everything about social news, we're reaching out to writers and thinkers we like to ask them how they get their daily news. Read the first post here. See all of the posts here.)
This week, our interviewee isAnthony De Rosa, social media editor for Reuters and founder of the extremely popular tumblog Soup. We were following Anthony's tweets closely on Oct. 20, when Moammar Gaddafi was overthrown and killed, and subsequently wrote an overview of how the news broke that day. He did an incredible job of using the medium to get the news out, and we wanted to know more about how he stays informed.
Describe how you get news throughout the day. What's the first thing you check when you wake up?
First thing I check is Twitter. I scan it to see what I might have missed overnight and what is breaking in the morning. On the train into work I'll catch up on articles I Instapaper'd and when I get into work I'll scan our Reuters wire for news that's starting to come in early. Muckrack is the best email newsletter I get, and it's a good rundown of what's happening early on in the day.
What publications or news sources do you read and trust? How frequently do you visit them throughout the day?
Aside from our own Reuters news, I'll go and read The Atlantic which does a good job at gathering what I need to know from all over, I'll scan the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN, and niche sites like Politico, SB Nation, Mets Blog, All Things Digital, and Gawker's network of sites (in particular Gizmodo and the main Gawker). I have a RSS reader filled with these sites and more, but I tend to go directly to them. My RSS reader helps me find what I might have missed or a site I might forget to check. I like to read sites across the political spectrum to challenge myself. I don't like to get into an ideological rut and want to be informed about what all sides are saying. I visit the big sites, the first seven I mentioned, several times a day, especially to see how they're all reporting a big story...........
This week, our interviewee isAnthony De Rosa, social media editor for Reuters and founder of the extremely popular tumblog Soup. We were following Anthony's tweets closely on Oct. 20, when Moammar Gaddafi was overthrown and killed, and subsequently wrote an overview of how the news broke that day. He did an incredible job of using the medium to get the news out, and we wanted to know more about how he stays informed.Describe how you get news throughout the day. What's the first thing you check when you wake up?
First thing I check is Twitter. I scan it to see what I might have missed overnight and what is breaking in the morning. On the train into work I'll catch up on articles I Instapaper'd and when I get into work I'll scan our Reuters wire for news that's starting to come in early. Muckrack is the best email newsletter I get, and it's a good rundown of what's happening early on in the day.
What publications or news sources do you read and trust? How frequently do you visit them throughout the day?
Aside from our own Reuters news, I'll go and read The Atlantic which does a good job at gathering what I need to know from all over, I'll scan the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN, and niche sites like Politico, SB Nation, Mets Blog, All Things Digital, and Gawker's network of sites (in particular Gizmodo and the main Gawker). I have a RSS reader filled with these sites and more, but I tend to go directly to them. My RSS reader helps me find what I might have missed or a site I might forget to check. I like to read sites across the political spectrum to challenge myself. I don't like to get into an ideological rut and want to be informed about what all sides are saying. I visit the big sites, the first seven I mentioned, several times a day, especially to see how they're all reporting a big story...........
Getting the News — Anthony De Rosa | News.me
http://blog.news.me/post/13205196546/getting-the-news-anthony-de-rosa
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