Articles

A Nieman Visit to Cuba

The fellows discovered risk-takers who ‘live with a wink, a fiction, and perhaps a few bribes.’

A Weblog Sharpens Journalism Students’ Skills

‘Students—the writers and editors—publish a respectable, if not professional, product every day on the World Wide Web.’

Blogging Connects a Columnist to New Story Ideas

‘… I have always suspected that many of my readers know more than I do.’

An Editor Acts to Limit a Staffer’s Weblog

‘This is not an issue of freedom of speech.’

Excerpts From the DMN Daily Weblog

Since The Dallas Morning News’s editorial board Weblog began on July 20, editorial writers have been sharing their views and, in some cases, arguing amongst themselves for the wired world…

Readers Glimpse an Editorial Board’s Thinking

Creating a Weblog offers ‘a way for us to demystify what we do and how we do it.’

Blogging Journalists Invite Outsiders’ Reporting In

‘To be interesting, the blog must have a discernible human voice: A blog with just links is a portal.’

Weblogs Bring Journalists Into a Larger Community

‘… we need to drop grandiose claims of being aloof, objective observers and be more transparent about how we do our jobs.’

Benefits Blogging Brings to News Outlets

What benefits do Weblogs bring to journalism? Several.

‘Sister in the Band of Brothers’

A reporter accompanies the 101st Airborne during the Iraq War and turns the experience into a book.