Blogging

I just read an article on Poynter.org about live blogging. In class, we've had many discussions on whether a journalist should blog on their story or not. This article said that it makes journalists' better storytellers. They do live blogging during an event to keep readers updated, or they will write a story that wasn't particularly important enough for their AP stories. There was one example of a journalist simply writing about a baseball coach going to pick up a hot dog and peanuts at a concession stand, and afterwards posing for photographs. This isn't a story that would be noteworthy for an AP story, but it adds a little extra touch, so he blogged about it. There were a few downsides from story also. One of those is that liveblogging can distract the journalist from the actual event, and maybe even miss something important. I think journalists should be able to blog, as long as it isn't getting in the way of their professional work. Everyone should have the right to do it, but journlists need to know when they should stop.