If any journalists had doubts about the benefits of blogging, hopefully this guest post by my friend Scott Elliott will put them to rest. Scott was an education reporter with the Dayton Daily News and has just taken on a new role as columnist for the paper. He started a blog about his beat, Get on the Bus, shortly after a Knight-Wallace journalism fellowship at the University of Michigan three
PDF Word cloud of Reportr.net created with the online tool Wordle. Inspired by 10,000 Words post on “What is the multimedia blogosphere talking about?“ Print
Regular readers will have noticed the lack of recent updates. That’s because I have just got married. I’ll be taking a break from blogging for the next couple of weeks during the honeymoon, but will be back refreshed by the end of the month. Print
Buried in the BBC Trust’s review of bbc.co.uk is some revealing information about how the corporation has adopted blogging. In a section on accountability, the Trust explores how the BBC’s commitment to “to forge a new relationship with licence fee payers” online and suggests that “recent developments, such as the development of BBC editors and management blogs, mean that the BBC may be able to fulfil this commitment much better
Joseph Carrabis, founder and chief research officer of NextStage Evolution, talks about how there are two kinds of bloggers, the Holmes and the Watson. (Shot on a Nokia N95 at the ICA annual conferencein Montreal) Print
Katherine Sharpe, Seed magazine’s manager of ScienceBlogs provided an insight into how the blog aggregator works at the Knight science journalism conference. ScienceBlogs kicked off in January 2006 with 12 blogs and now, two years later, brings together 70. Katherine explained how Seed quickly realised that bringing the blogs together into a science metablog created something bigger than the sum of its parts and the traffic reflected this. The posts
I caught up with Clive Thompson after his talk at the Knight Science Journalism symposium and asked him about his love of blogging. His blog is Collision Detection. (Shot on a Nokia N95) Print
Clive Thompson has just bombarded a room full of science journalists about the joys of blogging and Twittering. Thompson was a Knight Science fellow, during which he became his blog, Collision Detection. Today, at a symposium to mark the 25th anniversary of the fellowships at MIT, he evangelised about the benefits of blogging. For Clive, he blogs to improve the way he thinks. The blog was what Cory Doctorow describes
My J-school students take on blogging this week. It is one of the assignments in our core multiplatform journalism course, so they don’t really have a choice but to blog, at least for a few weeks. Some students are enthusiastic about being freed from the constraints of the traditional news pyramid. Others see it as another assignment and some, well, they don’t use blogs. This isn’t about teaching students how
Blogging in journalism is one of those topics that can provoke strong emotions. Usually critics of blogs are quick to proclaim that “blogging isn’t journalism!” This kind of debate is fruitless, as it confuses form with content. Blogs have developed to become a publishing platform, just like television or radio. The content may or may not be journalism. As with any platform, it has its own conventions which has developed