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Bob Stepno points to this article about a news director at WMC-TV in Memphis, Tennessee, who might be one of the few television journalists with a blog.

While I was looking for information about weblogs in newsrooms, I discovered this item from March on Poynter’s Web site discussing Wikipedia’s usefulness to journalists. A few of us have been writing about its reliability and content quality, like in this other post.
Addendum 8/28: Bob Stepno shares this post.

Sabrina Pacifici of LLRX.com shares a few helpful tips for those people considering starting a blog.

I suppose in some ways, Manila is a cross between a blog and a file/document management system because it allows for the uploading of files, which someone can then point to from a blog entry, but I have something much more sophisticated in mind. Does anyone know if something like this exists?
As I’ve been reflecting [...]

The Telegram & Gazette Library in Worcester, Massachusetts, has a relatively new blog aimed at the publication’s journalists and other library users. One of my esteemed colleagues shared the URL with me.

A colleague came to me all excited the other day, “I just got out of an intense LexisNexis course!” He gushed “I know jiu jitsu now!”
I replied, “Do you really know jiu jitsu or do you just know how to find it?”