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MediaChannel.org points to an interview with Wall Street Journal tech reporter Nick Wingfield who talks about how journalists use blogs in their jobs. It boils down to these four points:
  1. Journalists use blogs as tickler files when researching stories.

  2. Journalists use blogs as sounding boards.

  3. Journalists use blogs as digests of the day's news.

  4. Journalists don't "flog the blog" - they see blogs as useful websites.