What journalist bloggers need to know

1. Blogging for Journalism Mindy McAdams University of Florida

2. “ We’re in a battle every day for traffic. People are very, very sporadic on how they use the Web and the sites they go to.” Jim Brady, vice president and executive editor, washingtonpost.com (AP report, Oct. 5, 2007)

3. Washingtonpost.com has about 80 blogs . Sports and religion blogs have proved popular with readers. AP report, Oct. 5, 2007. Attributed to Jim Brady, vice president and executive editor, washingtonpost.com

5. “ The right question is, ‘How can I spend more time with my blog?’ … Rather than assume that blogging is an add-on … taking away time from ‘serious’ journalism, how about treating it as journalism itself ?” John Robinson, editor, News & Record, Greensboro, N.C.

6. Robinson usually posts to his blog once a day, every weekday.

8. “ Every journalist group I’ve spoken with about blogging has stopped short when I say we don’t edit our staff blogs. The editors are more concerned about libel than about the proper use of it’s and its. But editing is editing. No good copy editor would stop at editing only for typos and grammar.” John Robinson, editor, News & Record, Greensboro, N.C.

11. Gutierrez spends about three hours a day, most days, on her blog. That includes writing, editing and monitoring the comments. It also takes time to research all the links she includes. Bridget Gutierrez is an education reporter and blogger for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

13. “ Sometimes it takes 15 minutes. Sometimes, if I’m live-blogging, it takes four hours. Or four days.” Jamie Gumbrecht is a lifestyle columnist and blogger for The Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader

14. Community blogs vs. (?) journalist blogs

20. There are 245 journalist blogs on The CyberJournalist List . (Is yours there?)

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