Jay Rosen’s NYU blogging class produces a Blue Plate Special exhaustively reviewing big newspapers’ blogs, charting the state of the art, and interviewing USA Today’s Kinsey Wilson. I’ve been playing with the idea of having journalism students review media — wondering whether it was too meta — but I think this proves it works.
OPA conference
11.30am update: A morning at the Online Publishers Association that has featured Jeff Jarvis, Reuters, Times Online, Forbes and many more……
Jeff, I think it worked well, too — a key is that the reviewing is fact-based, and research-heavy, not just opinion. It’s an impressive piece of work.