The Washington Journo
by Duncan O'Leary
On one level this seems a good example of the Pro-Am economy, but on another it interests me that in spite of the real sense of identity within the blogging community, writing for a newspaper remains an increasingly popular destination for confirmed bloggers. All of which leads to the question of whether essentially newspapers and blogs compliment each other, or whether the newspapers are simply staving off the advance of a new form of media which is destined to overtake them.
David David
It is an interesting trend but i wonder how widespread it really is for so-called 'big bloggers' to start off with a blog and then make the transfer list to a national newspaper - like Salam Pax did for example. After all Salam had something to say that was unique in its insight into pre-war Baghdad from the hitherto unheard perspective of the ordinary Iraqi. apart from him and a handful of other examples i can't really see it a big thing.
far more common it seems is for already established journalists to create a blog as a form of self - promotion and also use it as a forum where they have the freedom to write about what they want. now mp bloggers: that's a whole separate story...