Bob Stepno's Other Journalism Blog

  

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I have written about 50 top journalism blogs and here is another list of 91 Journalism Blogs and Websites You Will Love that I found from Bob Stepno through Twitter.  In this post I want to bring your attention to Bob’s own  Other Journalism Blog where he discusses online journalism. It is an excellent resource. I have known Bob since the early days of the Berkman blog group. Bob now teaches journalism, media studies, digital culture, and Web production at Radford University in Virginia. 

Bob provides useful coverage of the recent of Editor & Publisher. This publication was a trade journal for the newspaper industry,” which, Bob writes, “in recent years has made it a chronicle of the industry’s decline, while juggling its own print and online editions.” Bob writes about the need to preserve E&P’s archive for journalism historians and offers links to other coverage.

There is a nice post on the online, ‘cross-generational’ features of the new PBS NewsHour.  This is another creative combination of old and new media.  PBS merged broadcast and digital staffs in an expanded newsroom, with part of the goal to provide reporting, “that is cross-generational, diverse and dynamic.” They have also created a partnership with GlobalPost, a Boston-based network of international correspondents already online as http://globalpost.com. Bob mentions that, Hari Sreenivasan, a major part of the broadcast/Web crossover, will write a news commentary blog that will share links to primary source documents so that viewers can make up their own minds about stories. This is a nice old-new media combination feature. There is more about out how the online and broadcast operations are being reorganized by Anna Shoup, local/national editor of the program at her PBS MediaShift blog.