One of the country's most respected training grounds for professional reporters has become the first school to offer a class on the 21st century symbol of do-it-yourself journalism.
Next fall, a handful of students at the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism will convene weekly to learn about blogging from John Batelle, a co-founder of Wired magazine, and Paul Grabowicz, the school's new media program director.
Students will create a weblog devoted to copyright issues, from to online music trading. They'll also debate whether blogs are "a sensible medium for doing journalism, and what does that mean?" said Grabowicz, who contributes to the Poynter Institute's online media blog.
(A blog is, to oversimplify, a constantly updated combination of diary and link collection.)
The Berkeley class on blogging is the latest in a series of signs that the media establishment is starting to warm up to what was long seen as legitimate journalism's loud-mouthed kid sister.
MSNBC, for example, recently joined Fox News, Slate, the San Jose Mercury News and others by adding blogs to its website. READ FULL STORY
Next fall, a handful of students at the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism will convene weekly to learn about blogging from John Batelle, a co-founder of Wired magazine, and Paul Grabowicz, the school's new media program director.
Students will create a weblog devoted to copyright issues, from to online music trading. They'll also debate whether blogs are "a sensible medium for doing journalism, and what does that mean?" said Grabowicz, who contributes to the Poynter Institute's online media blog.
(A blog is, to oversimplify, a constantly updated combination of diary and link collection.)
The Berkeley class on blogging is the latest in a series of signs that the media establishment is starting to warm up to what was long seen as legitimate journalism's loud-mouthed kid sister.
MSNBC, for example, recently joined Fox News, Slate, the San Jose Mercury News and others by adding blogs to its website. READ FULL STORY