Tribune's Zorn cuts column to blog

Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn has stopped writing his Saturday column so he can devote more time to his blog. That's dedication.

Zorn says writing and posting entries to the Web takes longer than he thought it would -- two or three hours most days. "It's also been more difficult than I'd expected to create a quick flow of copy from me to the editors and then to the readers in a way that takes full advantage of the immediacy of the online world while preserving the quality-control mechanisms of print journalism."

Still, he says, it's been worth it. "Over the last 12 months, blogging has given me the chance to float trial balloons that later turned into column-size dirigibles, to call special attention to fine writing in the Tribune and other local publications and to needle columnists at the Sun-Times when they deserve it."

(Zorn, by the way, also quotes CyberJournalist.net saying the number of blogs by traditional media outlets has more than doubled in the past year to well over 200.)

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