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Earlier this semester, I e-mailed Tom Nelson at the Loyolan newspaper at Loyola Marymount about the blogging policy at the paper. I know Tom was interested in the topic earlier this year. I got a response recently that I’ll share here.

Doug Fisher attended a blogging/journalism confab in Greensboro, N.C. last weekend. His wrap-up weblog entry is entirely worth a read - Thoughts from Greensboro.

Over the past year, I’ve talked a lot about blogging policies at news organizations. The short version: You need one. I wrote an article for the latest issue of “Keeping Free Presses Free,” a publication of College Media Advisers, Inc., about this very issue.
So it’s a confirmation of sorts to see that CBS now has […]

Regarding my post yesterday about campus media blogging policies, Kiyoshi Martinez at CampusByline shares one that the Daily Illini apparently adopted as an internal memo last semester.

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Adding to the conversation about blogging policies, the Kansas City Star has made public their blogging guidelines for political reporters - “Credibility questions ease as readers embrace political blogs”:http://www.apme.com/committees/credibility/2006/082006credibility.shtml

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I’ve talked before about how refreshing it would be to assign a reporter on a student media staff to monitor the campus “blogosphere.” Here are some simple steps that would make that happen.
1. Identify a good candidate - keep an eye on the staff and pick a student who knows something about weblogs, who has […]

UPDATE: The Daily Mississippian story: “Ole Miss Students Die in Wreck“:
The other day Bryan Murley posed a question. Is Facebook the competition? Last night (December 9,2005) three Ole Miss students were killed in an auto accident. I have some students working this story. Few comments from the cops. No official university comment. Told my students […]

I don’t know about your campus, but at our campus, three words can describe the hottest thing in student media use: Xanga, MySpace, and Facebook.
You may be familiar with another name for these software titles: Social Networking systems. Xanga and MySpace allow users to create blogs, share photos, and find people of similar interests within […]