Weblogs and Journalism
I was directed (via tarheelbloggers listserv) to a Nieman Report (Harvard center for journalism) on weblogs and journalism. Here are some of the titles of the articles:
Weblogs and Journalism: Do They Connect? -by Rebecca Blood
Is Blogging Journalism? by Paul Andrews
Weblogs: A Road Back to Basics by Bill Mitchell (I like his quote “Weblogs will not save journalism as we know it. However, they might end up improving journalism as we know it.”)
Weblogs Threaten and Inform Traditional Journalism by Tom Regan
Blogs and Journalism Need Each Other by J. D. Lasica
Weblogs Bring Journalists Into a Larger Community by Paul Grabowicz
Blogging Journalists Invite Outsiders’ Reporting In by Sheila Lennon
Moving Toward Participatory Journalism by Dan Gillmor
Weblogs and Journalism: Back to the Future? by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Blogging From Iraq by Christopher Allbritton
Determining the Value of Blogs by Eric Alterman
The Infectious Desire to Be Linked in the Blogoshpere by Mark Glaser
Readers Glimpse an Editorial Board’s Thinking ‘Creating a Weblog offers ‘a way for us to demystify what we do and how we do it.’ by Keven Ann Willey
A Reporter is Fired for Writing a Weblog by Steve Olafson
An Editor Acts to Limit a Staffer’s Weblog by Brian Toolan
Blogging Connects a Columnist to New Story Ideas by Mike Wendland
Bloggers and Their First Amendment Protection by Jane Kirtley
A Weblog Sharpens Journalism Students’ Skills by Larry Pryor (my favorite, of course, as it is more education related)
Great reads! You have to check it out. Now, what this makes me want to do is to compile and spotlight articles from us- EDUCATORS!! It seems like we are always an afterthought in so much that gets written. We have got to change that! I would be glad to get it all together and make a special weblog site to spotlight educators. I may be presenting at SITE and NECC - proposals submitted - who knows? I’d like to come up with some way to just say - LOOK at what these educators are doing! Have you ever noticed in so many articles that education and weblogs are ignored? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a site that just spotlights our papers! I’d like to see a publication from us - maybe a little more writing than just our posts. A lot of you probably have excellent posts here and there that would lend itself to this kind of publication. Many of you out there could pull from various posts and come up with good stuff. A lot of good writing just sort of gets lost as time passes. We have it and it might be worth the time for all of us to browse back through our posts and think about sharing this way. What do you think?
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