Journalists Blogging for News Organizations
Focusing on The San Jose Mercury News’ weblog SiliconBeat, The Wall Street Journal covers the phenomenon of journalists blogging for news organizations, including the advantages of news organizations blogging and some of the concerns. It provides a great summary of many of the issues and is worth the read.
"The Mercury News’s push into blogs … comes as U.S. newspapers are wrestling with whether it is appropriate for reporters to be opining in such forums, and how much, if at all, their posts should be edited. To date, it is relatively rare for newspapers to sponsor reporter-written blogs.
Tim Porter, a former San Francisco Examiner editor who writes a blog on newspapers, said SiliconBeat is a refreshing alternative to a typical newspaper and gives readers valuable background information they probably wouldn’t see in print."
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