Archive for the ‘Journalism & blogging’ Category

J Student blogs for NYT

By Marcus O'Donnell • Sep 15th, 2006 • Category: Journalism & blogging

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 […]



Katie Couric to blog? and Fairfax to digicast?

By Marcus O'Donnell • Apr 18th, 2006 • Category: Journalism & blogging

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 worked […]



Urban Blogging

By Marcus O'Donnell • Apr 17th, 2006 • Category: Journalism & 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 venture […]



Answering back

By Marcus O'Donnell • Jan 2nd, 2006 • Category: Journalism & blogging

Great article in the NYT by Katherine Seelye on the way the internet is changing the relationships between sources and journalists, between the writers and those being written about. It is a great article because it does what good journalism does, it provides a range of points of view while still being pointed in its […]



Blogging at the Washington Post

By Marcus O'Donnell • Dec 24th, 2005 • Category: Journalism & blogging

Harry Jaffe reports on new blogging developments at the Washington Post:

Chris Cillizza is the first person hired by Washingtonpost.com—based in Virginia—to spend most of his time in the downtown newsroom, accordin g to political editor John Harris. The Post may have found the crossover reporter to bridge the gap between its print newspaper and Internet […]



Bigger than Jesus

By Marcus O'Donnell • Dec 21st, 2005 • Category: Journalism & blogging

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 was […]