Blogosphere = a giant wire service
June 25, 2008
Clyde Bentley, a Missouri School of Journalism professor who researches user-generated news, suggested at a Future of News conference that editors should treat the blogosphere like a giant wire service. What a great way of looking at it.
Most influential blogs: Vanity Fair’s Blogopticon
June 14, 2008
Vanity Fair has produced perhaps the definitive blog matrix, placing the most prominent and influential blogs on a vertical axis of news to opinion (Consumerist to PostSecret) and a horizontal axis of scurrilous to earnest (TMZ to SCOTUSblog). With eye-catching, clickable icons and brief pop-up descriptions of each blog, it’s pretty and practical. And CyberJournalist.net is honored to be included in the Earnest News quadrant, along such luminaries as Jim Romenesko and Talking Points Memo. Thanks VF! Read more »
Beltway Blogroll: All Good Blogs Must Come To An End
January 30, 2008
Danny Glover, who is ending his Beltway Blogroll blog for the National Journal, reflects on the changes he’s seen in political blogging since he launched his blog in 2005. Read more »
Bloggers and Journalists: Friends or Foes?
December 26, 2007
Audio and video of the blogging panel from this year’s Society of Professional Journalists Convention:
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Democrats accepting applications from bloggers to cover convention
December 10, 2007
Today the Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) began accepting applications for bloggers interested in being part of the credentialed blogger pool at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado from August 25th-28, 2008.
Bloggers blasted by J-school prof, and blast back
August 27, 2007
J-school prof Michael Skube complained in an LA Times opinion piece about bloggers’ lack of fact-checking, perserverance and restraint, citing respected blogs such as Joshua Micah Marshall’s Talking Points Memo as an example. No stranger to criticism, Marshall was nevertheless perplexed by his inclusion in such a column.
Huffington Post Allows Top Commenters To Become Bloggers
August 20, 2007
The Huffington Post has unveiled a new comment system that allows top commenters to become featured bloggers on the site, Scott Karp reports.
Here’s how the Huffington Post announced the new system:
NYT gets Freaky
August 15, 2007
The New York Times has taken the often-thought-provoking Freakonomics blog under its wing, the first time the newspaper has published a free-standing, independent blog. “We’ve opened our site up considerably over the last year,” Vivian Schiller, the senior vice president and general manager of nytimes.com, told The New York Observer. “We have more and more voices and people who are not New York Times reporters or columnists on the site. This is the first established blog that we’ve picked up. But it won’t be the last.”
On the blog, author Stephen J. Dubner assured readers, “Don’t worry about homer-ism; because we are housed in the Opinion section, we can still poke fun at the Times when warranted, and we can still say nice things about blood rivals like the Wall Street Journal.”
He said that the blog will expand to include more video segments, additional links to external sites, and the occasional Q.&A. with the likes of Jim Cramer of “Mad Money.”
Journalists’ blogs list now a wiki: Add your blogs
July 26, 2007
CyberJournalist.net recently converted it’s famous list of journalists’ weblogs (both on news sites and independent ones) into a wiki so that you can update and add to the list yourself.
When CyberJournalist.net started the list 6 years ago, there weren’t that many news blogs to keep track of. Now it’s become virtually impossible to keep up, so hopefully you, our loyal readers, can help.
Check it out at http://wiki.cyberjournalist.net/jblogs and help grow the list!
BBC News 24 launches real-time editor’s blog
July 12, 2007
BBC News 24 has launched a real-time editor’s blog as an experiment.
“If it works, it might give you a fly-on-the-wall insight into how a continuous news channel operates: how and why we reach our decisions on editorial and production issues; the last-minute changes in running orders; which stories merit ditching all other news to ‘roll’; how we react when things don’t go entirely according to plan (which, since you ask, is rather more often than is good for one’s health),” wrote News 24 morning editor Simon Waldman.