Overheard on the Web, and other Web links From The Herald's Research Editor
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
News from the front
NBC's Kevin Sites is often cited as an example of a professional journalist who 'gets' blogging. Sites had a blog which was shut down last year when he was working for CNN. Now Sites, with NBC News and seen often lately on the evening news, has the biggest story out of the Fallujah attacks: The story and pictures of a U.S. soldier shooting a wounded man in the head.
With the story, last night anchor Brian Williams mentioned Sites' blog and said you could get to it from the MSNBC Website. At least one blogger this morning mentioned it and said the link was prominent. I can't find it there now, either on the MSNBC main page or linked from the story. There are links to MSNBC's sanctioned blogs, like Keith Olbermann's, but not to Sites', which is his personal blog. Did someone at the network decide linking to it wasn't cool?
It's interesting that Sites' blog doesn't normally discuss military operations, but often has stories of Sites' encounters with soldiers, including photographs, some of soldiers with a little Hawaiian dancer statue named 'Layla'. Today, though, it does have some outstanding pictures of U.S. military in thick of battle in the streets of Fajullah. posted by liz at 9:51 AM
Elisabeth (Liz) Donovan was a Herald librarian for 10 years, and Research Editor for 13 years. She came to The Herald in 1981, following several years at the
Washington Post. She started blogging in 2000, with a news research blog, followed by the blog at Herald.com in 2003. A frequent speaker and writer on news research, she was honored in 2004 by the
News Division of the Special Libraries Association for her contributions to
the field.
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