It’s easy to talk about being transparent. And it’s easy to be transparent when there’s nothing really dicey to discuss. For us, this was a test of our willingness to be really transparent. I think we passed.

We decided it would be pretty boring to simply write long regurgitations of meeting minutes, and we’re not staffed such that it’s worth the time that would take anyway. But the highlight approach hits the important points, and ties in well with our Conversation blog. The Briefing blog is updated basically every weekday (we sometimes skip if staffing is really low).

We’ve been doing the news meeting blog for a year now. Wasn’t my idea, though; I saw it being done at the Ventura County Star.

The highlight approach also helps gives the flavor of the meeting, which, incidentally, runs much like the one Jeff describes above. Something that hardcore observers will see in the next few weeks when we start videocasting the meetings, too

I have sent a draft article for OhmyNews, not edited yet, about the We Media event and Buzzmachine. I have put a lot about Iraq into it as an example of an issue handled differently in various media. During this week the local elections in London will in my opinion reflect public opinion on Iraq. People who used to support Labour were against the support for Bush and now have low energy for going out to vote or else prefer the Liberal Democrats or some other party. That is my impression but you can check during the week. I don’t think this is off topic for a discussion about trust in media or government.

Will