Two Poynter posts today extol the virtues of live blogging for journalists. In Live Blogging: How It Makes Us Better Journalists, Associated Press reporter Ben Walker relates his experiences live blogging as a sports reporter. He says, “Your powers of observation are doubled and tripled when you live blog.”
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo and TPMCafe has been honored with a George Polk award for legal reporting and his work on the Justice Department firings of US Attorneys. This is an acknowledgment of the importance of the news/political blogosphere and a step towards recognition that the substance of an investigation is more important […]
This tip is for anyone who uses Firefox and who wants an easy way to post to a single blog or multiple blogs: get ScribeFire. I’ve just re-installed … my Christmas Eve hard drive crash is still making itself felt as I re-install this plugin or that application. (Secure Fetch was the most recent application.) […]