Should blogs be edited?
By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Nov 18th, 2007 • Category: Blogging, JournalismHow nice it must be as a blogger to have an editor to protect you from your solecisms. That would be a real luxury. A Washington Post memo on blogging includes a checklist for new blogs which says: “Blog items need to be edited. Your proposal needs to say who will edit blog copy.”
The bit about the value of promotion in print and at the main online site also sounds like a dream for independent bloggers.
The memo, available at the Washington City Paper, talks a lot of sense about blogging. It includes the need for regular updating (at least once a day) which I have not been doing recently.
With my infrequent posts I was surprised to find myself in Adrian Monck’s table of ten British journo-bloggers. It must be the long tail that has kept me there but thanks Adrian.
Yes, I could do with an editor to nag me for the copy.
Yet, there is something special about the immediacy of a
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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