Tracking Sources

In my blog today I am talking about where information comes from.  We had a choice to pick from
the New York Times or the Huffington  Post.  Well I chose the Huffington Post. Most of the writers there work for other magazines as well as this one. One of the stories I tracked was by Eric Newton. His story was on News for High Schools: Digital Media Plus Teaching Equals Support For Freedom. In his story it took you to a site called www.knightfoundation.org. From there you could chose two other things to look at.  The source of his information was they did surveys.  That is how he got the information that he printed.

The other story that I looked at was a story by four different writers.  The title was Missed Alarms & 40 Million Stolen Credit Card Numbers:  How Target Blew It.  The writers were M. Riley, B. Elgin, D. Lawrence, and C. Matlock. Each of these reporters got their information from people who work in some professional business related to the mater.  For example they talked to someone from the FBI another talked to a an executive officer from Target, another talked to a lawyer for people wanting to sue target.

Each of the people in these articles had their own way of getting as you say their source of information.  When I go through the list of  Credibility of WWW Resources  I think that both of these articles meet the criteria.  Even though in my first article I never would of thought of surveys as a source of information.  Trust me you had to read the story.

In writing, I guess anything can be a source.  It all has to start somewhere. Sometimes it is reliable and sometimes it's not.