Journalism Institutions Blogging the Campaign
I didn't notice when the Poynter Institute for Media Studies pointed the top level of "poynter.blogs.com" to its political-coverage blog and named it "Stump," but today I noticed that it's blogging about blogging -- in particular the Daily Kos coverage in Iowa.
"In general, though, it looks like this campaign will be an excellent glimpse at how blogs may influence or practice journalism," says Poynter's Matt Thompson. The fact that professional journalism organizations like Poynter are exploring the blog format says a lot. (Poynter specializes in workshops for working journalists and journalism educators.)
Second case in point: One of the resource links in the Poynter page's margin goes to another new campaign-coverage weblog from the pros -- the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism's new campaigndesk.org
Yet another link is to ABC News's The Note, which includes campaign calendars and one-sentence summaries of stories from two dozen newspapers today, and it's Saturday!
Poynter's own political blog picked up momentum in conjunction with the institute's campain-coverage workshops last fall. The contents are available by e-mail and RSS.
One of the Stump's December items quoted enough of Harvard/Berkman blogger Chris Lydon's "Blogging of the President" site launch (BOPNews.com) to attract some comments that might have been more appropriate on BOPnews itself.
As Chris said back in December, "We are looking everyday at a digital transformation of the constitutional ritual in which the American people choose their chieftain. So the invitation to all comers is to keep talking and posting till we get this story straight."
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