The Weintraub editing story has made the "big time." The flagship of old media, the NY Times, reports on the issue, and quotes any number of other news organizations that find no need to edit blogs.
But then there's this:
Not all news organizations have been as accepting of employees who blog. Kevin Sites, a CNN correspondent in Iraq who started a blog about his reporting of the war on March 9, stopped posting 12 days later at his bosses' request. Last year Steve Olafson, a Houston Chronicle reporter was fired for keeping a personal Web log, published under a pseudonym, that dealt with some of the issues and people he was covering.
Update: Calblog has more on the issue, including criticism of Weintraub from other bloggers.
Posted by Kevin Murphy at September 29, 2003 08:39 AM | TrackBack