Tag: blogs
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BlogHer and the media, meaning me in this case
The odd thing about being both a blogger and a journalist — on this particular day — is reading a story in the newspaper that I wrote about BlogHer, in which I try to play reality against what the big bad mainstream media (which is now apparently me) would have us believe is the stereotypical…
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American Journalism Review – A High Multiplatform Dive
“A Washington Post reporter recounts his adventures covering the Enron trial for the Web, radio, TV—and, yes, the newspaper.” American Journalism Review – A High Multiplatform Dive
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Eat The Press | The Huffington Post
It’s all about the media. Lots and lots of it. Good stuff, too. Eat The Press | The Huffington Post
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Does your college newspaper cover the blog beat?
Bryan Murley at Reinventing College Media lays out some instructions for covering the campus blogosphere. I think it’s a good idea, but I look at it another way: Reading blogs written by students, faculty, and alumni should be a way to find story ideas — not necessarily a beat in itself — unless, of course,…
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San Jose Blogger Meetup
San Jose Blogger Meetup – Tuesday June 27th, 6pm. I won’t make it this time, but this sounds like a great idea to me. Everyone’s welcome, from SJSU students to A-Listers, and everyone in between, not to mention above or below. Yeah, so I’ll probably be, um, eating pizza that night, but in Sicily.
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the blog
That might not be the first (or last) time I use that title, but it seems appropriate enough for the always entertaining discussion that ensues when journalists say things like “Any blog entry counts as journalism if the person posting it says it is, but journalism written by professionals cannot lose its special qualities and…
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Sending you away so you’ll come back later
Well folks, I’m pretty much all blogged out on the whole New Newspapers thing for now. I’ve started to feel like a broken record playing a recording of a broken record where lots of people tell each other why they need to change how they run their businesses. I’m still reading plenty of on-topic stuff,…
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Technorati Weblog: Technorati Teams With The Associated Press to Connect Bloggers To More Than 440 Newspapers Nationwide
“Technorati and the Associated Press this morning initiated a service to connect bloggers to more than 440 AP member newspapers nationwide.” Technorati Weblog: Technorati Teams With The Associated Press to Connect Bloggers To More Than 440 Newspapers Nationwide
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Building a community with newspaper blogs
John Robinson, editor of the blog-and-citizen-journalism-happy Greensboro News & Record in North Carolina, points to Robin Roger’s UNC-Chapel Hill master’s thesis on “Creating community and gaining readers through newspaper blogs.” [The full thesis as a PDF is here.] Robinson on the broad strokes of community-building: “We use the blogs to help us add information, context…