Five tests for newspaper blogs
Tuesday, 2 January 2007, 12:35
Andrew Grant-Adamson thinks my assessment of the Independent’s half-hearted blogging effort was “almost too kind” and neatly summarises the long-running debate about the purpose of mainstream news sites’ blogs into five tests for newspaper blogs to help editors avoid similarly poor results.
Before launching any blog, Grant-Adamson writes, editors should ask:
- Does it do anything which cannot better be done in another section of the site?
- Does it develop the paper’s interaction with the readers?
- Does it gain a valuable audience? (A particular niche, readers who are new to the paper etc)
- Can you give the blogger sufficient time to blog successfully?
- Have you chosen a writer or writers who have the aptitude to blog successfully?
If the answer is “no” to any of these questions, it is unlikely to be successful.
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4. Yousuf | 12 January 2007 at 1257
yeah, it should be done so that a clear visibilty of thoughts can be carried out.
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