Analysis, Social Networking News - by Patrick Thornton on Monday, January 14, 2008 15:06 - View Comments

Journalists Already Use Blogs, The Switch to “Social Networks” Shouldn’t Be Difficult

As noted below, journalists are increasingly becoming comfortable with blogging as a resource for finding and honing story ideas.

Fantastic!

Blogs can be social networks, but the blogosphere is chaotic and in the end, unorganized. Hence, the switch to using a social network to inform your reporting seems to be the next evolution. The question then – how to do it?

That’s what we will find out. The next post (tomorrow morning) will be a conversation with Scott Clark and Dwight Silverman from the Houston Chronicle on what to expect with their beat blog.
clipped from kevin.lexblog.com


75% of journalists use blogs for story ideas : New survey

Picked up from Jerry Johnson, head of strategic planning at Brodeur, news of a survey finding that blogs are having a significant impact on journalist’s story ideas, angles and insights.

  • Over 75% of reporters see blogs as helpful in giving them story ideas, story angles and insight into the tone of an issue.

  • 70% of reporters check a blog list on a regular basis.

  • 21% of reporters spend over an hour per day reading blogs.

  • 57% of reporters read blogs at least two to three times a week.

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