Editorial review processes for blogs
What's the editorial review and approval process for blogs at news sites?
Lee Rozen, general manager of seattlepi.com, explained how his site manages blog in a post to Poynter's Online-News list:
Each entry in Todd Bishop's Microsoft blog, http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/, is read by an assigning editor on the print business desk before being posted. I'm told very little editing takes place.We also have two blogs by online staffers Brian Chin,
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/buzz/ and Mike Thompson,
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/baseball/, which are posted and then edited by me. I know very little editing takes place on them; very little is needed.Comments are automatically posted, and the blogger reviews them. From time to time as necessary, we've deleted posts or developed some rules or added programming to stop spam. More often, Todd gets story ideas or Mariners fans engage in a spirited discussion of some arcane Sabremetric-sort of point.
What is your site's editorial review process for blogs? What do you think is the best approach?
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2 comments about 'Editorial review processes for blogs'I got another reply (off-ON-list) from Andrew Katkin (Online Managing Editor for the Billings Gazette, www.billingsgazette.com). He wrote that with the exception of Billings' teen bloggers, all blog posts go up un-reviewed.
Posted by Joe Murphy at April 22, 2005 10:45 AM
Sounds like a great workflow. I stil, wonder what one can do in terms of a viable workflow in a larger environment. We have close to 7 million unique browsers and we are trying to figure out a decent solution to enable our users to interact with the site using bloggs, but we don't have enough resources to manage and review everything that would come in. regards
Bruno
Posted by Bruno Lopez at May 9, 2005 11:45 AM
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