Blog Reporting Questions: Who Said What and in What Voice?
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We started a good discussion at Berkman last night about ways bloggers might give readers more clues about whether they are “doing journalism” or expressing opinions, or quoting someone else’s blog, or perhaps writing outright fiction… My afterthoughts are on my more verbose blog.
The “doing journalism” link in that last paragraph goes to a related story in the Melrose Mirror, one of the MIT Silver Stringers
projects I pointed to last night when the idea of getting seniors
into blogging came up. Also relevant to the discussion: Check out the journalism tutorials the project created a few years ago, full of good advice from “old pros” Jack Driscoll and Don Murray.
One thing Silver Stringers may have lacked is blogging’s emphasis on
linkage. That Melrose Mirror item, for instance, really could use
links to more information about Ellen Hume and Seth Effron… who, it sounds like, are planning some Democratic National Convention coverage — another topic that came up last night.
(My hobbies are stumbling into coincidences and making connections.)
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