Blogging and Journalism: Short History, and a Case for Change
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what’s a blog?
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history
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before the internets
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(tubes!)
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we had reporters who wrote for newspapers
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an editor would assign stuff like photos and
sidebars
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it would all get edited, laid out on a page, and printed
on paper
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like this:
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and it was good.
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but then they made the internets
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so we changed stuff
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and that wasn’t bad, at first
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but the content was … printy.
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and people started to like talking to each other
online
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but they couldn’t talk to us
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so they went someplace else
to talk
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chatrooms. listservs. blogs.
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so the bosses said - HEY!
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‘come back!we got news!’
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so they added blogs.and audio. and video.
and community-produced content.
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and it was good…
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But how was it supposed to work?
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Where there multiple blogs?
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who edited them?
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and wait … didn’t the print people need help blogging to
begin with?
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whew…..
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Let’s step back.
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what’s good about blogs?• conversational• regular updates• links to more material• discussion in comments• niche/relevant topics • easy to create/edit
• plays well with other technologies
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can’t newspapers do that?
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without …• losing reporting credibility• creating stupid workflows• abusing overworked writers• being afraid of our audience
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Maybe it’s time to try something new.
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Laura Fries
laurafries.com • [email protected] director, association of alternative newsweeklies
presentation given at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, June 2007