The Media Bloggers Association describes itself as “a nonpartisan non-profit organization dedicated to promoting, protecting and educating its members; supporting the development of “blogging” or “citizen journalism” as a distinct form of media; and helping to extend the power of the press, with all the rights and responsibilities that entails, to every citizen.” Its founding [...]
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Bad Science blogger Ben Goldacre talks about science coverage in the media and in the blogosphere.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Shane Richmond over at the Telegraph has done a nice job explaining simply what blogs are and how they've evolved.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Because some things are worth repeating: Alltop's journalism page is a great entry point to dozens of blogs about journalism and the news business.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
ReadWriteWeb posts about Technorati's latest breakdown of the blogosphere and disagrees that the figures show blogging has become mainstream.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
The Beatbloggers - a group of US journalists experimenting with using social networking tools such as Facebook, Google groups, blogs and Twitter in their reporting - have posted an interview with New York Times writer Brian Stelter. He talks particularly about how writing a blog differs from writing a print story. This is a subject that's come up a lot in conversation recently with journalists and journalists-in-training, so I thought I'd post some of his comments here.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
I enjoyed this rant from music blog The Lefsetz Letter which has a go at newspaper executives who are "online ignorant, even if they can speak the language, they’ve got no insight, because they don’t utilize the damn thing". He starts by noting how cross newspaper executives are with the likes of TradeMe and CraigsList for stealing their lucrative classified ads (Fairfax bought TradeMe to get them back again, although whether they're properly leveraging the deal is another story).
Monday, June 23, 2008
A nice story from one of the Beatbloggers about how using social networks - advertising that you're interested in hearing from residents of a community - can work a treat for rustling up stories. This is from US reporter Daniel Victor, who writes for the Patriot-News (Pennsylvania):
Monday, May 12, 2008
This is interesting. The Washington Post is going to run stories from popular technology blogging site TechCrunch (#1 in the world according to BloggerBoard) in its Technology section.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Here's an interesting case study of a neighbourhood blog gaining some early success - in part because it's printed and delivered to local letterboxes. It's a NZ site called Flying Pickle (but thanks to UK blogger Seamus McCauley for the link) and it serves three suberbs outside Wellington - Korokoro, Maungaraki and Normandale - with an approximate population of 6,500 people: "peaceful, sleepy, middle class suburbs with a handful of local shops, 3 schools, 3 kindys, reasonable broadband penetration, a good deal of home-based businesses."
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Monday, August 24, 2009
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