How blogs became part of BBC News

The story of how blogging is changing journalism at the BBC is told in my research paper, The Blogging BBC: Journalism blogs at “the world’s most trusted news organisation”, published in the August edition of Journalism Practice. In the paper, I outline how blogging went from being an activity by a handful of journalists to being adopted by some of the BBC’s biggest names, such as Business Editor Robert Peston,

Research on how blogs become central to BBC journalism

I’m very pleased to announce that my research paper for Journalism Practice on blogging at the BBC is available online. “The Blogging BBC: Journalism blogs at ‘the world’s most trusted news organisation’” has been posted online months ahead of the print edition of the journal via Taylor & Francis’ iFirst online publication system. The system “makes new knowledge available to researchers in the shortest possible time”. This tackles one of