Newspaper blogs: let the conversation begin
As advertised, APME has posted its second day's report on newspaper readers. This one is about blogs.
"Readers who find blogs important say the online writers discuss stories mainstream journalists ignore and question the decisions news networks make. They recognize the fallibilities that go along with blogging but say those drawbacks are balanced by openness, interactivity and a communal nature that helps honesty rise to the top."
As a mainstream journalist, I'm with with Steve Outing, a senior editor at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies: "I think they (blogs) are influencing mainstream media to become more interactive, to treat news more as a conversation and a bit less as a lecture."
This blog opens the door wider to the way we work. Come on in. You have questions about something we do? Ask it. Wonder why we cover a story in a certain way? Why we emphasize one topic over another? Why we wrote "Kerry, Bush differ sharply" in a headline rather than "Bush, Kerry differ sharply"? (I got that complaint this morning.) Well, I'm here to answer. Or try to.
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Let's not forget that the main-stream media helps keep us Bloggers honest as well.
Posted on October 14, 2004 8:02 PM
You didn't ask, and who am I to tell you, but -- I like it best when you talk about things other than blogs -- like your editorial judgment or the local news itself. There are already a billion bloggers blogging about blogs. Just my $.02.
Posted on October 15, 2004 10:29 AM
I hear you. That's my interest, too. I'm still searching for topics about the news and the newspaper to write about. I sometimes find that the ones I choose aren't the ones people are interested in. That's why I stuck that solicitation at the end of this post.
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