Michael Hiltzik, who writes the Golden State column for the business section of the Los Angeles Times and also has a business blog, was interviewed by the Online Journalism Review at USC.
“A good column topic has to have a certain heft. There are a lot of things that happen that just aren’t going to make it. I mean, they might be worth three or four paragraphs, but not 1,000 words. So I saw the blog as an opportunity to do some of that.”
Hiltzik also discusses what happened the first time someone wanted to edit something in his column that appeared earlier in his blog, which is not edited. And he discusses the different readers he has on his blog vs. those who solely read his column in the printed paper.
See the interview with Robert Niles here. For any journalist or columnist thinking about starting a blog about their beat, it should be required reading.
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