OJR article: Blogging as a Form of Journ...
Posted by Marcus O'Donnell in Blogs and journalism on 09 25th, 2004 | No Comments
An interetsing typology from an OJR article: Blogging as a Form of Journalism. The quotes are from Deborah Branscum a Newsweek journalist who blogs
• Creative freedom. Part of a blog’s allure is its unmediated quality. “For a working journalist, there’s no luxury like the luxury...
NYU Journalism’s ReadMe...
Posted by Marcus O'Donnell in Blogs and journalism on 09 22nd, 2004 | No Comments
Another J-School firmly at the forefront of web-based journalism is NYU. They even have a dean who blogs.
ReadMe is their ezine produced by their digital media students about digital media. The introduction to the latest issue has this to say:
For us, ReadMe provides an opportunity to learn ...
Blogging and J-Ed...
A recent project at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism shows the potential of blogging in journalism education. Their Presidential Reporting Project blog covers the current US presidential campaign. It includes recent posts by students blogging from the Republican convention in New York....
Washington Post on blogs and “memo...
Posted by Marcus O'Donnell in Blogs and journalism on 09 21st, 2004 | No Comments
Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz has this take on the Dan Rather story.
One of the bloggers who helped to break the story has this to say about blogging:
The secret, says Charles Johnson , is “open-source intelligence gathering.” Meaning: “We’ve got a huge pool of highly...
Blogging as new journalism...
Posted by Marcus O'Donnell in Blogs and journalism on 09 19th, 2004 | No Comments
AndrewSullivan was one of the first mainstream journalists to relaunch himself as a blogger. This is an interesting comment from a 2002 essay.
Bloggers are perhaps among the first writers to have the medium direct them rather than the other way round. Most non-blogger web journalism is still a little...