EMERGING ALTERNATIVES
The Media Go Blogging
Most Weblogs are produced by individuals, people with a passion for a particular subject. But after an initial period of puzzlement, some big media, both broadcast and print, are starting to see openings and opportunities in blogs. Here is a small sampling:
Opinion Blogs
- The American Prospect's Tapped
- National Review's The
Corner
- The New Criterion's Armavirumque
- The New Republic's &c.
- Reason's Hit & Run
- Slate.com publishes Mickey
Kaus
- Salon.com publishes Scott
Rosenberg and Joe
Conason
- The Wall Street Journal's Best
of the Web, by James Taranto
Beat Blogs
- The Athens Banner-Herald has a site called Athensmusic.com
- The Austin American-Statesman has a site called XLent
Blogs
- D.C. Denison, Boston Globe, NetWatch
- The Globe also has a sports
blog and a Redsox
blog
- The Christian Science Monitor has a post-Sept. 11 blog called
A
Changed World
- The Journal Times of Racine, Wisconsin has four
blogs
- Daniel Weintraub, Sacramento Bee, California
Insider
- Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News, eJournal
- The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington has a dozen beat-reporter blogs
Big Media Blogs
- ABC News publishes a must-see blog, The Note, for political junkies
- Advance.net, which publishes the Web sites of The Star-Ledger, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Oregonian, and others, has launched dozens of Web sites
- FoxNews.com publishes about ten
blogs
- The Guardian's
house blog
- MSNBC.com publishes a half-dozen blogs, including Glenn
Reynolds and Eric
Alterman
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