Local Newspapers And Blogging ... The Boston Experiment

Via David Weinberger's JOHO ... a pointer to an example of a local newspaper's (BostonNOW) enthusiastic and fresh foray into blogging.

Welcome to our experiment


Hey, our blogging area is finally “live” and the experiment can finally begin.

All my traditional newspaper friends tell me I’m crazy — or they’re holding their fire, waiting, I think, to see what happens before committing themselves. But they, too, are probably thinking, “What newspaper in its right mind would publish bloggers in the paper?”

Well, the way I see it, we’re inviting the readers into the paper to make it more relevant, more fun, more intriguing, more curious, and more reflective of our community. Think about it — the traditional daily newspaper is run by a small group of mostly males who are mostly white and mostly older and mostly living outside the city (by way of full disclosure, I fall into each of those categories, sadly on some of those counts).

So I think it would be a blast of fresh air to include in the paper the thoughts and writing and photography and videography of lots of different people from all around Boston. To help with that, we also open the planning of the paper to the public with the webcast of our daily news meeting, Sunday through Thursday, at 1 p.m. — just click on the NewsroomNOW tab at the top of the home page.

I can’t wait to see who comes to blog on our site and what kinds of stories (and photos and videos) they’re going to post.

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