Should every journalist have a blog?
My friend Scott Karp of Publishing 2.0 has a great post up about why he thinks that every newspaper journalist should have a blog — and one of the great things about having a blog is actually illustrated in Scott’s post, since he modifies and updates it based on input and criticism from both a commenter and a journalist/blogger (Brad at Union Square Ventures has some thoughts here on how editing on the Web begins after publishing).
And no, I’m not praising Scott’s post just because he mentions me 
In a comment, John Roberts notes that journalists should always let their employers know about their blogs (wise advice), and in his own post, a journalist/blogger — Bobbie Johnson of The Guardian, who I have a lot of time for — argues that a journalist’s duty is to the story, and to his or her paper first, and that not everyone is going to want to blog, or be good at it.
Those are fair points (particularly the latter), but I would agree with Scott that the vision of journalism Bobbie is advocating is a little like black-and-white television was in the 1960s: quaint and admirable in a way, but definitely on its way out. And I think that the kind of back-and-forth that the Web allows — and that Scott engages in — will produce (or at least is capable of producing) better journalism, “scoops” aside.
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