
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:
- Journalists use blogs as tickler files when researching stories.
- Journalists use blogs as sounding boards.
- Journalists use blogs as digests of the day's news.
- Journalists don't "flog the blog" - they see blogs as useful websites.