The Oregonian was all about blogs yesterday.
Christopher Frankonis (formerly of the lamented Portland Communiqué and now of the altogether different FURIOUS Nads!) writes about the joys and pressures--mostly the pressures--of single-handedly running a blog that featured serious reporting. (Clearly, the experience still smarts, but he's found a way to turn it into a revenue stream, so good on 'im.)
And Jeff Alworth of Blueoregon muses on the connections and interplay between the partisan, passionate blogs and the mainstream media where investigative journalists can make at least a modest, steady income.
The Frankonis and Alworth pieces are tied together--sort of--by a slightly tut-tuttish article from PSU faculty member Regina Lawrence, who notes that the mainstream media are reaching for the immediacy and participatory feedback that many bloggers have, but that payrolls still give big media the edge on investigative journalism.
And finally, business staff writer Brent Hunsberger has a sidebar on bloggers who write about their day jobs. Ironically, it's an excerpt from his weblog. (Note well, by the way: Blogging about your day job is like nitroglycerine: Tricky, dangerous, and best left to experts and those with a death wish.)
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