Once again blogs are proving, for a least a few people, to be a great farm system for the journalistic big leagues. As Reuters reports in a story entitled, “Time.com hires former Wonkette blogger,”
Former political blogger Ana Marie Cox, better known as Wonkette, will rejoin the so-called mainstream media as the new Washington editor for Time magazine’s Time.com Web site later this month.
Makes perfect sense to me, and it’s a probably a good move for both sides.
on Aug 16th, 2006 at 7:36 am
[…] it's a tough Web world out here, as we all know. Just recently, the L.A. Times suspended a staffer's blog when he admitted to posting anonymous and derogatory comments on another blog (via CyberJournalist). As bloggers "enter the mainstream" with one-third considering blogging a form of journalism and Time hiring ex-Wonkette blogger Ana Marie Cox (also via CJ), the rules, and etiquette surrounding blogs begin to take shape. A Blogger's Code of Ethics (CJ) is just one development; this Editor and Publisher piece also outlines the evolving legalities associated with blogging. […]