Derek Willis -- who might be considered an analytic journalist's analytic journalist -- reminded us today that there already is an abundance of resources in every newsroom in the world.  The problem is, journalists don't understand the concept of synergy, and that one piece of your information and one piece of my information can total the three pieces required to produce an uncommonly good story.

See:
Derek Willis' The Scoop
http://www.thescoop.org/thefix/

http://www.sfexaminer.com
Today's SF Examiner has an innovative full-scale cheerlead for a project with the potential to significantly impact San Francisco. The Examiner swerves from the unusual placement of a front-page editorial, to a news story with several relevant sidebars, to a columnist's unusual  perspective, to an editorial appeal by the Mayor. Click on the above link and then click on the link for today's newspaper.