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‘My blog is a way to pitch stories for the newspaper’

By Julie Starr | Published: 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.
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Newspaper executives: if you don’t use the web you’ll never understand it

By Julie Starr | Published: 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).
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A beatblogging success story

By Julie Starr | Published: 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):
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Washington Post signs syndication deal with TechCrunch

By Julie Starr | Published: 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.
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NZ blog gets a boost from going into print

By Julie Starr | Published: 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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