“One venue for sampling this medium is Cyberjournalist.net, a Web site with a list of more than 200 Web logs by journalists, whether linked to official news Web sites or produced on personal Web pages. The site is published by Jonathan Dube, a managing producer at MSNBC.com and one of the first journalists to use an online journal. In 1998, when Mr. Dube was a reporter for The Charlotte Observer, he and reporters used a primitive form of a blog to publish updates and commentary in a hurricane.
“While many of the blogs on Mr. Dube’s list are written by opinion journalists, who are accustomed to writing commentary without concern about objectivity, others are produced by reporters, who are professionally bound to avoid taking sides…
“Mr. Dube is organizing a discussion with journalists about blogging best practices for a conference of the Online News Association in Chicago next month….
? Michael Falcone
