Blogging For Journalists / from SreeTips.com

Los Angeles Times
March 17, 2007

Blogs can top the presses
Talking Points Memo drove the U.S. attorrneys story, proof that Web writers with input from devoted readers can reshape journalism.
By Terry McDermott, Times Staff Writer

 "Hundreds of people out there send clips and other tips [on various stories]. There is some real information out there, some real expertise. If you’re not in politics and you know something, you’re not going to call David Broder. With the blog, you develop an intimacy with people. Some of it is perceived, but some of it is real.

Read the full story. 

NPR’s "On The Media" interviews Josh Quittner, editor of Business 2.0 about his turning his writers into bloggers:
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/transcripts_110306_d.html 

This article, by JD Lasica in OJR, is  ancient history (published in 2002!) but really worth a revisit: http://www.ojr.org/ojr/lasica/1032910520.php

When do webloggers commit journalism? What do informed amateurs and niche experts bring to the media ecosystem? Should journalists blog?  And should they rely on weblogs as news sources? Should bloggers and those in traditional media engage in a dance of fear and loathing, or do both sides stand to gain from the other? Should blogging be taught in journalism classes?

Those were some of the questions tackled last week at the University of California Graduate School of Journalism.

 Find the answers in the article.

Here is a Jan. 2005 Wired piece by NYU’s Adam Penenberg that needs updating but has a lot of useful information about the adventures of some of the big bloggers who also happen to be journalists.

Heartaches of Journalist Bloggers
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66251,00.html

Excerpt:

For all the press that bloggers have received for revolutionizing journalism by bringing Gutenberg’s printing press to the digital masses, when push comes to shove, journalists who operate personal weblogs face an inherent conflict of interest. In the end, it’s the blogs that usually get short shrift.