Why AP is launching a blog

The Associated Press says its going to debute its first blog at the political conventions in Boston and New York, starring Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Walter R. Mears, because the conventions are a good place to experiment.

"We like to try new things at the conventions because we have such a large staff in one place," said AP's Washington bureau chief, Sandy Johnson, in a press release. "In 2000, for instance, we created AP's first-ever convergence newsroom and had print, photos, graphics, tv, radio and multimedia all working in the same room. We also filed from the convention floor via Palm Pilot in 2000, a pioneering use of the Palms, which were fairly new then, as a reporting tool."

blog@ap.org will be available to sites that subscribes to AP's premium election services, AP Politics and AP Election Online.

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