Some Examples of News Oriented Weblogs

Our readings recently have focused on news oriented weblogs and their relationship to the practice of journalism. Here are links to a few sites you may wish to look at as examples:

The UK Guardian runs Newsblog and Comment is Free, two group weblogs where Guardian journalists and editors post entries and readers are invited to respond in comments.

Korea-based Oh My News! presents itself as an example of online citizen journalism managed in an open-source format. Editors working for this group weblog write entries of their own and edit material from volunteer reporters world-wide.

Jay Rosen's PressThink is a one-person weblog devoted to journalism criticism, while the newly-launched NewAssignment.Net is a Rosen project which is trying to blend open-source production, journalistic professionalism, and funding.

indymedia.org is promoted as "a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth. "