Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits: "Knoxnews.com Blogs the News
You might have noticed that a bunch of people from Poynter are at the big Unity journalism conference in Washington, D.C., and are blogging the event. Well, we're not the only ones who thought of this. The website of the Knoxville News Sentinel has six people at the conference, and they are writing for a Unity blog that's being promoted on the site's homepage. News Sentinel editor Jack McElroy reports that his people have been having 'a lot of fun in the past month with staffers blogging' -- from the Democratic National Convention and the Television Writers meeting in Los Angeles. In each case, reporters combined Web coverage with regular print-edition stories and columns. "