Sparring over sports bloggers

OK, sports fans. Do bloggers belong in the locker room? That’s one of the questions posed in this NYT article, Tension Over Sports Blogging.

Might make a good subject for an individual blog post. Here’s a taste:

Tension over sports blogging is one of the strains between sports franchises, leagues and reporters to have emerged during the digital age.

The dispute has grown lately between the press and organized sports over issues like how reporters cover teams, who owns the rights to photographs, audio and video that journalists gather at sports events, and whether someone who writes only blogs should be given access to the locker room.

Direct link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/business/media/21bloggers.html?th&emc=th

Some hot topics for individual blog posts

Your weekly individual blog post is due tomorrow. If you’re scrounging around looking for a media-related topic for this week’s post, here are some candidates:

• An Ad Age article on Web 3.0 and the dearth (and perhaps the death) of original reporting
• Blogger Mayhill Fowler reflecting on her reporting of Obama’s “bitter” comments
• The Churner Prize web site/blog, focusing on examples of “chournalism”
• Actor Tim Robbins’ rabble-rousing speech at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas

If you have some other hot media-related topics you’d like to suggest, please add them in a comment to this blog post.

Tips for student bloggers

Here’s a helpful blog post by Karen Miller Russell, a PR professor at the University of Georgia, with tips for developing a successful student blog. It’s got some good ideas for blog post topics, and for getting your blog noticed.