NPR story on bloggers’ content being incorporated into print media
Neighbor Kathy, quickly becoming a regular correspondent, passes along a tip this morning about a story on NPR about an Icelandic publishing company (Dagsbrun, at Wikipedia) that is launching free papers in 10 US cities incorporating content from local bloggers. This growing intersection between blogs and “traditional” media has been an ongoing conversation for me for a while. Hillsdale activist Rick Siefert, of the Red Electric and I had a discussion on this subject at Village Coffee several months ago, as he laid out his plans for a more traditional reporting approach to neighborhood blogging, as opposed to my “hey, check out this cool place” school of journalism.
I can’t get a clean stream of this story, so I don’t know if Portland is included in Dagsbrun’s plans - I’ll update as soon as I can listen to this. Thanks, Kathy!
EDIT: Here’s a link to this story on WBUR (Boston) that includes a transcript. It’s their story, NPR picked it up for the national newscast.
Here’s the link to the story on NPR.org, although be warned - their streaming servers are performing very poorly this morning, likely due to the horrible events at VA Tech yesterday. I graduated from high school in Virginia, and a lot of my friends went to Tech, I’m pretty sure that at least one member of my high school circle teaches there. I’ve been to the dorm they’re talking about - I just can’t imagine…