The Hartford Courtant’s decision to force a newsroom employee to halt his independent personal weblog has stirred up a hornet’s nest both in the blogging community and online news circles. Jonathan Dube, MSNBC.com technology editor and publisher of CyberJournalist.net, asked me to compile my critique of the Courant’s decision into an essay, which just went […]
Weblogs
Calling all California newspaper bloggers
Paul Grabowicz of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism is putting together another conference panel and wants to know: Are there any newspaper reporters or columnists in California, other than Dan Gillmor, who write weblogs sanctioned by their publications? I don’t know of any. (The SF Bay Guardian dropped their blog a year or so […]
NewsHour segment on blogging
A few months back a reporter for PBS’s Online NewsHour contacted me for some background on the blogging phenomenon. Tonight, their segment on blogging airs “at approximately 29 minutes” after the program begins. The story contains interviews with Joan Connell of MSNBC.com, political blogger Josh Marshall, one of Josh’s readers, a group of bloggers who […]
Revenge of the news control freaks
Lots of opinions kickin’ around the blogosphere — as well as mailing lists — about the Hartford Courant’s insistence that one of its editorial staffers pull the plug on his independent weblog. Here’s an email I just sent to the online-news list: Let’s summarize events to date, shall we? The travel editor of the Hartford […]
Conn. paper tells staffer to kill blog
We knew this day would come. A daily newspaper editor has ordered one of its journalists to suspend his personal weblog. Editor & Publisher has the details: Hartford Paper Tells Employee to Kill Blog. Travel editor Denis Horgan’s weblog “created a parallel journalistic universe where he’ll do commentary on institutions that the paper has to […]