Wednesday, February 18, 2004
the growing world of the blog, where controversy is given high esteem in its social value
The article below is an extremely well researched vehicle that explains the current state of the transparency in the blog universe for working journalists, who are obliged by the real world of employment pressures to consider censoring themselves, even when the topic is completely out of field and like a hobby:
When Journalists blog, editors get nervous
Karen Mann, an interactive news producer for The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., who also writes on technology for the newspaper, writes a personal blog about music, Mann's World. She says, "Since the N&O has a full-time music critic, I don't often have the chance to write music articles, so I decided to do this both as a creative outlet and to have an online place to show my work to magazines I'm pitching."
Her supervisor knows about it, "and his reaction was, if I'm not profiting, and I'm not in direct competition with the paper, it's OK." Mann is, however, "very careful about the language I use in my [blog] entries. There have been times when I've toned down the language just in case one of the higher-ups here sees it, which can be frustrating."
¶ 2/18/2004 11:16:00 AM
The article below is an extremely well researched vehicle that explains the current state of the transparency in the blog universe for working journalists, who are obliged by the real world of employment pressures to consider censoring themselves, even when the topic is completely out of field and like a hobby:
When Journalists blog, editors get nervous
Karen Mann, an interactive news producer for The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., who also writes on technology for the newspaper, writes a personal blog about music, Mann's World. She says, "Since the N&O has a full-time music critic, I don't often have the chance to write music articles, so I decided to do this both as a creative outlet and to have an online place to show my work to magazines I'm pitching."
Her supervisor knows about it, "and his reaction was, if I'm not profiting, and I'm not in direct competition with the paper, it's OK." Mann is, however, "very careful about the language I use in my [blog] entries. There have been times when I've toned down the language just in case one of the higher-ups here sees it, which can be frustrating."
¶ 2/18/2004 11:16:00 AM
