February 18, 2008
Blogging Between the Lines
I really liked this article, and how it talked about blogging being an advantage to newspapers. It is really hard to make specific rules to blogging, or even to get everyone to agree to others opinions on blogging, but I believe blogging can really help out newsrooms. At KEYC, our weatherman has his own blog, which a lot of people read to find out about the weather, and also because of of the like for the weatherman. I really feel that blogging is a good thing, and it will help out journalism in the long run.
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You should post a link to the KEYC weatherman's blog (I don't know what his name is since I don't usually watch KEYC ...)
That's an interesting example of an effective use of a blog, though. I think it shows that newspaper blogs can be surprisingly popular even among smaller communities with smaller papers. As I mentioned on Bronson's blog, however, it's probably going to be the small papers that are the last to adopt with the changing times.
Could you also see using blogs to publish information that turns out to be false? That would be my major worry. Unless you have a fulltime "monitor" over the system .. someone who would agree to work nights and weekends .. could the media outlet or company be considered a co-defendant in a libel case, for example?
There will be many issues like this that you will have to resolve in your careers.
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