The Guardian and Comment is Free
Jeff Jarvis at Buzzmachine.com points to a great piece by Georgina Henry, the editor of The Guardian’s Comment Is Free blog hub experiment, about her experiences and how columnists have taken to it. Here’s an excerpt:
For those who have dwelt in the world of bloggers for years, none of this will come as a surprise. But for journalists who have spent a lifetime in print - like me and most Guardian columnists - it has been a rude shock. On good days I think this is the most exciting new frontier for journalism - the immediacy of the debate, the excitement at watching readers engage with the big (and occasionally trivial) issues of the day with wit, verve and insight make print seem sluggish, out of date, even a bit dull.
Jarvis also quotes her as saying at a conference that:
“When I started this, I did look on it as a newspaper journalist; these were things that we were putting up that you had to read. I didn’t really get the measure of the conversation that goes on. “Two months on, I’m kind of humbled by it. You have to think in a different way about what exactly does divide your professional columnists and the people that I recruited to blog from the readers, who are sometimes extremely erudite.”
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