I run a niche social news site where Chicagoans are sharing and rating links to local stuff. For some time now, the plan has been to publish original reporting

I run a niche social news site where Chicagoans are sharing and rating links to local stuff. For some time now, the plan has been to publish original reporting that digs a little deeper into one of the most interesting submissions each week. This is the first such report. Someone shared a weird Youtube video, I hired a freelance journalist to investigate and she brought back the story linked here. Social news + Original content. Everyone's talking about finding new ways to support original reporting on the web. This is my proposed solution: outsourcing my "tip line" through a social news app so we can focus on the reporting rather than the story-finding.