The Legend of Trent Lott and the Weblogs... Jay Rosen analyses a study from the Kennedy School which pinpoints what happened between Big Media and the blogs in the case of Trent Lott. It does not portray weblogs as lead actor, but as reactor to a story that almost disappeared. A certain receptivity in the bloggers allowed judgment in the press to correct itself.
The Net Knows More Than You: An Open Letter to the People of CBS News...Jay Rosen looks at the National Guard memo scandal that brought down Dan Rather.
Literary Weblogs An Overview...a review of some literary blogs from 2005
LitBlogs(new site) & (old site)...Mike Ahern's short lived but fascinating attempt to review well written blogs
Redefining freelancing with entrepreneurial Web journalism....
A first-person account of attracting funding - and readers - to an independent online journalism project that involved in-depth reporting abroad. Lives in Focus a multimedia blog, was the result. The project is an effort to document the lives of families struggling to buy anti-retroviral drugs in order to keep a family member healthy, and to show the challenges that stigmatized AIDS patients face while trying to earn enough money to buy lifesaving treatment.
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