Insights into why BBC journalists blog

One of my research interests is blogs at the BBC, so I was fascinated by the tweets coming from Paul Bradshaw and Dan Bennett on the session on blogging at the internal Future of Journalism conference organised by the BBC’s College of Journalism. Bradshaw outlined the BBC blogs rules: authenticity, single author, impartiality, comments, commitment and  obeying the rules of the blogosphere. By all accounts, the star of the session

BBC sees blog comments as activity of a 'vocal minority'

Image via Wikipedia There’s somewhat of a contradiction in the latest posting on the BBC’s Editors Blog by Helen Boaden, director of BBC News. Introducing the post, she writes: This week I gave the keynote speech at the e-Democracy conference. You can read what I said below. I would be interested to know what you think. The speech gives an overview of the BBC’s approach to citizen journalism. But even