Blogs and journalism 
Blogging versus reporting(0)
Two recent reports from the Guardian’s religious affairs correspondent Riazat Butt show the way mainstream journalists are using bogs and traditional reports to cover their beat. Butt filed two reports of the Vatican communication’s director Federico Lombardi’s defense of recent Vatican press gaffes. What is interesting is that her blog report and her news item [...]
Full Story»J Student blogs at NYT
In a fascinating experiment NYT columnist Nicholas D. Kristof has selected a J student Casey Parks to travel with him throughout Africa and write about their experiences on a blog. Unfortunately this great little experiment is behind the Times Select barrier and requires paid registration (you can get a 14 day free trial or its [...]
Publish your homework
Doing a search for resources on e-portfolios I stumbled across this gem from Pete Hubbard We do need to harness all of the creative energy that is now at the hands of our students (with access.) I say this in my presentations all the time, but how cool would it be for us to remind [...]
Katie Couric to blog?
USA Today’s Peter Johnson reports that Katie Couric’s new contract with CBS includes a commitment to a “daily, regular presence”. Current NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams already contributes a regular blog to NBC’s site and the ABC co-anchors do a fifteen minute daily webcast. But exactly what form that’ll take has yet to be [...]
Urban Blogging
Interesting article in the NYT about urban activism around a Brooklyn real estate project that has found a focus in the blogsphere. The Atlantic Yards project, a vast residential, commercial and arena development near Downtown Brooklyn, has come in for some tough criticism: But Atlantic Yards may well be the first large-scale urban real estate [...]
Blog as place and genre
Excellent piece in Kairos on “Blogging Places”. Tim Lindgren explores a range of new place blogs that are primarily concerned with locality and ecology as distinct from the global or purely personal approach of much of the blogsphere. Some unrepresentative cherry picks: On blogging genres: Carolyn Miller and Dawn Shepherd suggest, blogging is remarkable for [...]
Bigger than Jesus
Any article that begins: “How big are blogs? Bigger than Jesus. Bigger than sex” sounds like it’s going to be yet another blogsploitation spiel. However Daniel Rubin’s article in the Philadelphia Inquirer is a pretty good summary of major blogging trends. If 2004 was the year blogs entered the language (so says Merriam-Webster), then 2005 [...]
New survey: blogs and journalism
A new survey (another report here) of journalists and members of the public just released by University of Connecticut Department of Public Policy shows a wide divergence of views between journos and the GP on a range of key issues about freedom of the press and trust in the media. On blogging: Perhaps the widest [...]
Bloggers and the First Amendment
San Francsico Chronicle reports on the Apple versus bloggers case currently before a local court: Net buzzing on bloggers’ status / First Amendment issues become hot topic in chat rooms. The case could affect the future of bloggers and Web site publishers because lawyers defending the sites have asked Judge James Kleinberg to rule that [...]
Pew Finds Surge for Web as Source of Political News, As Newspapers Sink
Link: Editor and Publisher report on pew survey NEW YORK A Pew Center study released today found that using the Internet to get news of politics during the 2004 presidential contest grew sixfold from 1996, while the influence of newspapers sank. In 1996, only 3% of those surveyed called the Web one of their two [...]
Blogging as disseminator
CJR Daily has an interesting example of the way blogs can take an ignored mainstream news story and create a buzz. Peter G. Gosselin, who covers the economy for the Los Angeles Times, wrote three articles examining “an American paradox”: Why do so many families report less financial security than ever, even as many benchmarks [...]
Blogs and the post-press era
The controversy over “Jeff Gannon’s” access to the White House press room (catch up here and here) has raised yet more interesting questions about alternative versus mainstream media and the role of blogs. Gannon it turns out is really James Dale Guckert and gained his press pass under a false name. He was known for [...]
Blogs and the tsunami
I thought John Schwartz’s article in the NYT: “Myths Run Wild in Blog Tsunami Debate” was going to be the inevitable snow job following on from some fairly positive coverage of the role of bogs in the disaster. And it certainly starts that way. But the blogosphere’s tendency toward crackpot theorizing and political smack down [...]
Year of the blog
A basic, but interesting, article on the evolution of blog influence over the last year on BBC Online. Andrew Nachison, Director of the Media Center, a US-based “nonprofit think tank committed to building a better-informed society in a connected world,” points to the US presidential election as a turning point for the blogsphere: “You could [...]
Blogging keeps on keeping on
Blogging is continuing to evolve in all sorts of directions. From citizen journalism to business blogging. Dan Gilmour is leaving his full time journalism gig to explore a new unspecified “citizen-journalism project.”: I hope to pull together something useful that helps enable — and demonstrates — the emerging grassroots journalism that I wrote about in [...]
NYT quotes blog as “expert source”
Radosh notes another move of blogging into the mainstream. The NYT’s Edward Wong reports from Bagdad on Sunni disquiet over the US assault on Falluja and quotes an academic blog as an expert source: “After the attack on Falluja, we decided to withdraw from the government because our presence in the government will be judged [...]