When Journalists Blog: How It Changes What They Do
This survey looks at how blogging has changed journalism. It was put forth by Paul Bradshaw 'a senior lecturer in online journalism and magazines at Birmingham City University’s School of Media in the United Kingdom. He is also the publisher of Online Journalism Blog and a contributor to Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits.'
 
I find the survey's results about cutting out the middle man particularly interesting. I see sourcing changing daily and I am a fan of using Twitter as a way to cull information from my readers. As in all things journalists can't just rely on blogs, etc to develop sources but it does help. The survey also talked about more stories having 'legs' and reporters being able to return to posts to make corrections and advance the story.

I also found it interesting that a third of respondents only began blogging within the last year. It will be interesting to see the challenges blogging will face within the next few years.

Blogging tips
I am a huge fan of University of Florida Prof. Mindy McAdams. I love the work she does with teaching multimedia.She has put together this slide show about blogging for journalists. If you fall into the one-third of journalists who have recently begun blogging this is useful information for getting started.

Kate Nash has a great column about how bloggers have led her to do her job better. Nash, then a political reporter with the Albuquerque Tribune, wrote this back in 2006. She is now a government reporter with the Santa Fe New Mexican and has her own blog, Green Chile Chatter.