Workshop: Blogs by Journalists

Here's a list:

  • Me. David Akin
  • A list of mostly American journalists and American organizations with a blog. Some links here are dead or outdated.
  • The Campaign Desk: Critique and analysis of the 2004 Presidential Campaign by the Columbia Journalism Review
  • Dan Gillmor: Technology columnist for the San Jose Mercury News
  • Getting There: This is the blog of the transportation reporter for Amy Cannata, the transportation reporter for the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash. In fact, the Spokesman-Review has a staff full of bloggers. The paper also maintains a list for bloggers who live in its readership area.
  • The Girlfriends' Locker Room: A blog run under the banner of the Philadelphia Daily News. This is a blog whose authors are newsroom employees at the Daily News — a feature editor, a news editor, a food editor, writers — who are interested in fitness. They've taken their collective interest to the Web with their blog and talk about getting fit and staying healthy.
  • Mariners Log: Here's a blog, run by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for fans of the Seattle Mariners major league baseball club. Contains links for other non-PI sites but, as beat reporters for the PI are contributors, this seems to be a must-read if you're a fan of the team.
  • Online Blog: The blog for the technology reporters and writers at the British newspaper The Guardian
  • Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln: Back again to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. PI reporter M.L. Lyke spent most of March on board a U.S. aircraft carrier operating near Iraq and blogged about it in addition to filing her regular reports. A good example of the kind of one-off blogs that pop up for a particular time and a particular place. Beat reporters should be constantly on the lookout for these kind of blogs as they can be a great source of eyewitness accounts to events you may be covering.
  • Iraq Hack: The blog of Tom Popyk, a Canadian freelance reporter in Iraq.
  • Andrew Coyne – National Post columnist has a very busy site.
  • National Post editorial board — Not just Coyne, but the brain trust in Don Mills has its own blog.
  • Press Gallery: Elaine O'Connor is a reporter at the Vancouver Sun. This is her own site, not the Sun's.

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