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This blog is baseball heavy these days. You can tell it's April

Dejan Kovacevic is the Pirates beat reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and he is very good at his job. In fact, he recently won an AP award for his reporting.

One of Dejan's strengths is his ability to relate to readers. He runs a weekly Q&A, and he addresses fan concerns on his blog as well. But today's game story is a bit troubling.

Dejan mentions in today's blog post that he used information from a fan email in his story on the Pirates 11-1 loss to the Braves:

Everyone who writes for any publication, online or otherwise, will talk about how much they value their readers, and I am no different. Except for one thing, maybe: I can offer proof.

Mackenzie Meador, a writer for The Daily Texan, contacted me yesterday with some questions about Wikipedia. Her story in today's edition rehashes some of the arguments that appear in most news stories about Wikipedia, and she seems to have gotten a good range of viewpoints. Hopefully, my remarks weren't too cliché.

Slashdot reports that one of Wikipedia's founders, Jimmy Wales, has set his sights set on magazine journalism. After acquiring the ArmchairGM sports community, Wales realized the power of fan culture:

“We learned a lot about enthusiastic fans and communities as we built ArmchairGM,” said Dan Lewis, co-founder of ArmchairGM and vice president of business development at Wikia. “Clearly sports are a topic that a lot of people care about, but there are thousands of others. Adding Entertainment, Local and Politics to the mix is just the first in a series of steps we will take to better enable people to come together online around common interests.”