Blogosphere: the emerging Media Ecosystem - How Weblogs and Journalists work together to Report, Filter and Break the News - Microcontent News, a Corante.com Microblog

The Blogosphere is pioneering a new form of iterative journalism.

Grassroots Reporting > First, stories are increasingly being broken by weblogs doing grassroots reporting.

Blog Filtering > The best of these stories are filtered through a combination of Blogdex, community blogs, thematic blogs, and blog indices

Traditional Reporting > Savvy journalists - both blogging and non-blogging alike - take the best of these blog-inspired story ideas and write articles

Blog Filtering and Fact Checking > Bloggers link to the most interesting articles by Journalists, fact checking and filtering the stories