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Thursday’s blog is full of woe

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • May 28th, 2007 • Category: Blogs, Journalism, Newspapers

Siobhain Butterworth, the Guardian new readers’ editor (ombudsman) is to start a blog about issues for the paper and its readers, she tells us in Comment is free. This is great and should open up a conversation with readers which, at times, will undoubtedly be difficult.

That is probably why she carefully describes it as an "experiment" that will appear on Thursdays. Clearly she needs to think about what she writes but I wonder whether a fixed weekly date is sustainable in new media.

Andrew Grant-Adamson is Andrew Grant-Adamson is a journalist who now teaches a new generation of writers, subs and editors at the University of Westminster.
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