Sure, you have a VHF/UHF scanner in the kitchen - turned up high - and it got you the first news photo you sold.  But what are your other “scanners” to maximize your output of news photo packages?
   One, simply, is a CB radio in your car - a trucker-grade one, fed into a trucker-grade antenna.  You’ll hear fast about major wrecks on major roads that way.  It will also get you information on what restaurants and gas stations are open during power outages after major storms - and more photos of the scene at them.
   If you’re a ham-radio operator, a 2-meter/440 MHz radio will also get you plenty of information for covering the aftermath of major storms, too - or even where a wrecked small plane may be.  It - on the main local 2-meter or 440 MHz channels - will also get you that information on the few places still selling gasoline when a power outage means most all cannot.
   The other is Twitter.  Follow your area’s other journalists - and you’ll get clued in on developing stories.  Put the Twitter app on your smartphone to use it mobile.
   Twitter got me information on how volunteers were suddenly guarding the local military-recruitment office after an attack on a recruitment center in Chattanooga - and I went, shot the package, and uploaded it.  One photo (below) from that package has grabbed people like no prior photo of mine.

Volunteers guard military recruitment office, Burlington, N.C., July 22, 2015
after attack on recruiters in Chattanooga.