The Online Journalism Review has some pointers on how to report a news story online. Just because you're a blogger and not a professional journalist (or maybe you are) doesn't mean the advice is irrelevant. Good advice is good advice. The article also makes mention of 'open source journalism',
"Reporters traditionally don't tell readers in advance what stories they are working on. Reporters don't want to lose a potential scoop to a competitor by announcing what they are investigating before they have that story ready to go.Open source reporting takes the opposite approach. A reporter announces the topic he or she wishes to investigate, and invites readers to submit leads, tips, sources and ideas. The potential for a "scoop" is lost, as other writers can do the same thing. But open source reporting is based on a collaborative model, emerging from the ideal that a community of readers knows more, and has access to more resources, than a single reporter or newsroom."
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