Site of the Day Interesting Journalism Links Journalism Links From American Editor to the Journalism Reading Room at the U of Wisconsin Madison. This book can be ordered online from The Poynter Institute bookstore. Another is to join a chat session. And one of the most popular is to join a newsgroup. The newsgroups are the subject organization of these Usenet messages.
Forums are like newsgroups but they are generally found as a feature within a web site.
An individual web site will host various forums for its users to allow them to post comments, raise issues and get group support. Newsgroup and forum messages are posted publicly, available for anyone to read and respond to. You can get leads and angles on a story area you are working on. By connecting to a newsgroup's population, you are connecting to their rolodexes, too. The group is highly motivated to share information and to support the questions raised by other members.