Interessante Überlegungen gefunden bei Cyberjournalist.net:

Weblogs are an excellent tool for independent publishers to reach large audiences, but few Weblogs regularly break new information online. Gordon Joseloff, a former CBS News and UPI correspondent, started a local news site about Westport, Conn., in March that takes the form of a Weblog, <% link to=.
Mit Hilfe von Weblogs könnten beispielsweise Regional- oder Lokalzeitungen "Publishing Communities" aufbauen. Gordon Joseloff formuliert einige seiner Ideen bei CyberJournalist.net:
WestportNow.com fills the void and has quickly become the online source for news of Westport for those in town and around the world. The site has broken a number of local stories later picked up by national news media, including The New York Times, and even caused the Times to run several corrections in stories about Westport. The most notable story first reported by WestportNow.com and later picked up by local media (and then the New York Times, which led even to some foreign pickups -- a German radio station called me for an interview) involved a controversy over naming a local bridge after a late Westporter (Ruth Steinkraus Cohen) who was an ardent supporter of the United Nations.
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