We'd like to expand the breadth, depth and frequency of our news coverage, so we're starting this thread to try to organise how it works a bit better.
One idea we had if for people to adopt an area (could be a region or sector), and concentrate on posting stories from there. An example would be Ret Marut's coverage of Bangladesh, or Khawaga on Egypt, Jef in France etc.. Covering the region/sector where you live or work, or where you have particular language knowledge, can obviously be good, but generally it's enough to just set up a few rss feeds and keep an eye out for strikes.
As usual we're mainly interested in wildcat strikes and other unofficial industrial action (work to rule etc.), but other stuff is welcome too as long as it fits our style guide. Also note that if someone else adopts an area on this thread, it doesn't stop anyone from posting news about it - it's just a handy way to focus, in our experience.
If you've not contributed news articles before, it's really easy, and we'll walk you through it.
Beginnings of a submissions formatting guide - i.e. how to actually submit stuff in the form started by Ret.
If you're interested in doing something, post on this thread and I'll update the second post as we go along.
The idea is less to try to get individuals to comprehensively cover everything - that's pretty unlikely to actually work (although it'd be nice obviously), it's more about breaking things down into manageable chunks. On that note - if you keep an eye on two or more things, that's fine - as is duplicating something that someone else does (although avoiding actual article duplication is good obviously).
'still interesting' is hard to define but you can probably guess.
Can comment on articles and discussions
So optimistically I'll make a list of people here - start with obvious people who already post stuff regularly (no extra work implied):
Regions:
Africa (francophone): Jef Costello
Bangladesh: Ret Marut
Belgium: Jef Costello
Egypt: Khawaga
France: Jef Costello
Ireland: Boulcolonialboy, xConorx
Israel: treeofjudas
Mexico: Alan
Nepal: Ret Marut
New Zealand: Asher
Poland: Laure Akai
Spain: Oliver Twister
South and Central America, Caribbean: Alan, David in Atlanta, Olivertwister
Turkey: Devrim
Sectors:
Education: xConorX
Media: Saii
Science: xConorx