Category: Blogging

N.Y. Times boss on The Trail

Cyberjournalist Jonathan Dube interviews Len Apcar, the New York Times editor in chief, on Times on the Trail. Apcar doesn’t like to think of this new thingie as a blog; he prefers “news service.” I did not want to jump…

Knight Ridder’s campaign blog

The folks on the campaign trail are filing dispatches at krtrail.blogspot.com. I posted the whole URL to highlight a pet peeve of mine: that the corporation I work for has professional journalists representing our company hosting blogs at Blogspot. There…

New editor’s blog

Please welcome Chriss Simmons Harris, copy desker at the Odessa American, to the blogosphere. Chriss’ opening post: So here’s the deal. I was once a writer who became an editor and needs to write again. Thus Chriss’ Case is reborn…

On life in the Big Leagues

OK, I have football metaphors banging around in my brain after having blogged an entire playoff game the other day. The only way to get rid of them is to put ’em here. Football, or any pro sport for that…

Reporters up for adoption

Over the weekend a little dust devil of discussion sprang up over the idea of bloggers “adopting” reporters. Jay Rosen has the summation here The idea is for a blogger to latch onto a byline of a reporter who covers…

Best blogs of 2003

I know, 2003 is so last year, but listmeister Fimoculous has tossed together a nice list of savvy blogs worth checking out if you haven’t already. Speaking of the Fimo-dude, he inspired a mighty fine “best of” list over at…

Gushing stroke piece alert

USA Today raves on the wonders of political blogs, which are, of course, transforming political journalism as we know it and heralding a new dawn of citizen democracy. For future reference I’ll call this a Mister Jones Story, in honor…

Editors who write

Testy Copy Editors discuss writing and reporting on the side. Seems obvious but people make me wonder sometimes: Everybody who gets paid to change other people’s writing should be doing some writing of their own, preferably for an audience. (File…

‘Why I Hate Weblogs’

An irate rant against blogs. Caution: F-bombs abound (for those who know me in person: not that there’s anything wrong with that.) Found via Weblog Hype, a new blog about the hype about blogs. For future reference: the arrival of…