When Journalists Blog, Editors Get Nervous

When I set out to write a column about staff journalists who write Web logs in their spare time, I found that there are two principal types of employed journalist bloggers:

  1. Those who are very careful about what they blog, never getting too controversial and seldom expressing opinions. Their employers know what they're doing and support them as long as they don't do anything that might put the news organization in a bad light.

  2. Those who feel stymied by their media-company employers from writing what they want -- who look at the larger blog world and feel annoyed at their managers because they're not allowed such freedom of expression. ... [Editor&Publisher]

Wie US-Verlage über die Blogs ihrer Angestellten denken, ein sehr ausführlicher Überblick. In Deutschland scheint das noch nicht wirklich ein Problem zu sein. Zumal die meisten bloggenden Journalisten (die sich auch als solche zu erkennen geben) hier Freelancer (oder anderweitig arbeitssuchend) sind, so wie ich das sehe.

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