Maybe we were on to something…

When we mentioned as our first Blogger Tip that you should report where big media isn’t, we didn’t think that we’d have a real-life example so soon after writing that. This week, Atlanta has been hit by terrible floods and only one major paper was reporting on it as of this morning. MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media calls this a “Newsfail” in this morning’s post, Newsfail: No Major Newspapers Able Or Willing to Cover Catastrophic Floods in Atlanta.

However, a bunch of local sources are reporting on this. For a collection of blogger stories, check out outside.in/Atlanta_GA/tags/flood.

Not only do bloggers cover stories that larger media doesn’t, they are also usually able to post most quickly on an event than a larger media machine’s publication schedule allow. The timeliness of events and the nimble nature of blogs give them a one-up on bigger sources, and distribution on outside.in and on our partner pages shares your content with big media’s audience, so get your stories in our system today!