Newly posted, March 30, 2006:
Find the Fanatics in Your Newsroom and Give them a Mike. One theory says: never blog about the things the newspaper normally writes about. Only blog about the stuff the paper never writes about.
Small Can Be Big in Newspaper Blogging “Small to mid-sized newspapers can’t break the budget chasing Pulitzers by contriving extravagant, resource intensive stories. We can, however, publish the best blog on the Internet, and we ought to aspire to nothing less.”
Posted, March 23, 2006:
- Globally, Newspaper Sites Are Slow to Adopt the Blog Blue Plate Special went looking for blogging at some of the top newspaper sites in different countries around the world.
Posted March 9, 2006:
- “It’s Always Sitting There Waiting, Happy for You to Go Tell it Something.” A close-up on reporters who get blogs, featuring Dan Rubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Blinq. (starts below…)
Posted March 7, 2006:
Mr. Rogers Comes to Blogging. Our profile of Greensboro News & Record editor John Robinson.
Newsroom Bosses With Weblogs: A List. Compiled by Dan Miller.
Newspaper Blogging 2012: A Look Back at the Early Days by Ed Cone, who projects himself forward in newspaper time.
Blogging, Eh? Canadian Newspapers Lag Mark Hamilton surveys the scene
Our debut package was posted March 1, 2006:
The Best Blogging Newspapers in the U.S.* By the Blue Plate Special team.
Facts About the State of Blogging at America’s 100 Biggest Newspapers (Our nifty chart showing what all 100 are doing.)
What the Chron Thinks it’s Doing. Featuring Dwight Silverman and editor Scott Clark.
- At USA Today, A Blog is Surveillance, Personality, or Breaking News. Kinsey Wilson, executive editor, talks about it.
Check back with us over the next ten days as we introduce new features and posts.
Comments (1)
Taking a closer look a journalists who blog might be worthwhile, too :-)
Posted by: Robert J. Ricci | March 9, 2006 05:19 PM