Newspaper Blogs Pay Off
Jan 18th, 2007 by Dan Blank
As newspapers renew their online focus, the tactic seems to be paying off:
“The number of people reading Internet blogs on the top 10 U.S. newspaper sites more than tripled in December from a year ago and accounted for a larger percentage of overall traffic to those sites.”
Steve Rubel sees this as a step in the right direction, and ponders the future of journalism:
“Stories won’t be written and “put to bed.” They will be co-written and re-written by journalists and readers together. This will either take place within a journalist’s blog or over the ether as a conversation that travels across many of them.”
I thought you might be interested in taking a look a the Capitol Hill Broadcasting Network. www.chbn.com.
It’s basically a cross between C-SPAN and You Tube. It’s a video-sharing / social media / political-only.
site. Members of the network include Gov’t agencies, Military, Congress, candidates, and advocacy groups.