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# Newspapers: To Blog, or Not To Blog
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2007/01/newspapers_to_b/
- Published: 2007-01-19T18:06:12.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T11:49:44.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Blogging, Blogs, Journalists, national newspapers, newspapers

So, here’s the first in what should be a wave of posts from tabs I’ve had sitting open, ready for me to blog about:

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My, but things are getting interesting in the big, bad world of mainstream journalistic blogging. For one thing, one of [our tabloids has been blogging away and nobody’s noticed](http://open.typepad.com/open/2007/01/mirror%5Fblogs%5Fqu.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). Yes, *The Mirror* managed to [launch 13 blogs](http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), with all the functionality you’d expect, and nobody really noticed in the blogging world. Ah, well, all that proved is that we’re all intellectual snobs, who won’t touch tabloids with a bargepole.

Meanwhile, the broadsheets aren’t having a great time of it. [Shane Richmond](http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/shanerichmond/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) of *The Telegraph* has been asking the paper’s bloggers [to avoid talking about the workings of the paper](http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,,1989277,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=4&ref=onemanandhisblog.com). And that’s a shame, because it was an element of their blogs I liked. Jeff Jarvis [takes the paper to task](http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2007/01/13/blogging-behind-gauze/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), and lays into *The Independent*‘s pathetic blogging effort while he’s at it.

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Mainstream technology [journalists aren’t happy about the bloggers at CES](http://blogbusinesssummit.com/2007/01/mainstream%5Fmedi%5F1.htm?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), either. I’ve just started to see the first resistance to blogging from journalists at RBI. Plenty of interesting days ahead�

On the positive side, Steve Rubel has noted that the *Washington Post* is [gearing up to launching a blog portal for local bloggers](http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/01/washington%5Fpost.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). While this is something the �local nationals� of the US can do, and which the UK �true nationals� would struggle with, it is something that the struggling regional newspaper industry could look very seriously at, don’t you think?