Georgia Recorder stories picked up by other outlets – and that’s great

You’ll see on our “About” page that we view news as a vital community service and believe that government accountability and transparency are valued by all Georgians. The Georgia Recorder welcomes other Georgia news outlets to publish our stories at no cost other than crediting us as the source.

Sunday, the Valdosta Daily Times published Jill Nolin’s story detailing Georgia Power’s plan to turn trees downed in Hurricane Michael and other wood waste into energy under the headline “Storm-tossed forests fuel biomass energy push,” a headline shortened from last Wednesday’s “Storm-ravaged forests add fuel to biomass energy push” published in the Georgia Recorder. Valdosta is in the area affected by the storm and the newspaper’s editors used a staff photographer’s archived shot of local damage to accompany Nolin’s story.

Friday, the writers of The Jolt, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution political blog, kindly welcomed the Georgia Recorder to the state’s news community. They used the occasion to point their readers to one of our debut week’s more popular posts, a Beau Evans story about a conservative north Georgia lawmaker who had counterintuitive things to say about his Latino constituents during an event Tuesday in Atlanta.

If other publications across the state follow suit and share Georgia Recorder stories with their readers, we will count that as a great success.

Just a few years ago, news outlets across Georgia staffed their own capital bureaus and it was common for several reporters to cover the same legislative committee hearings, press conferences on the Capitol steps and other state policy news.

The Georgia Recorder aims to help replace the news coverage communities lost while providing the kind of solid news coverage that outlets across the state will be anxious to share with their readers. Not only is taking our stuff and crediting the Georgia Recorder OK. It’s how we’ll know we’re doing good work.