This list of top 50 journalism blogs offers a good starting point for tapping into current trends in the media. It includes:

Blogs that focus on citizen, or grassroot, journalism, personal blogs from professional reporters, journalism school-supported blogs, blogs on a new media focus, organizational blogs and self-professed bipartisan resource blogs that provide primary resources for investigative writing.

There is a broad cross-section, from Paul Bradshaw’s Online Journalism Blog to the Nieman Journalism Lab.

Some of the categorisation of the blogs is a little strange. Jon Dube’s CyberJournalist.net is under the label “citizen journalism”.

This blog makes the list, which is wonderful. Though it is wrongly labelled as  “school-supported blogs”, rather than “personal blogs”.

Still, this is a minor quibble about a list that should be on the readings of all journalism students.