Katie Allison Granju on newsroom blogging and how she came to create Knoxville Talks. Far too many publishers, reporters, editors, anchors and producers still see blogging as some sort of second-class, redheaded stepchild. Bloggers aren’t real journalists, so the argument goes, and they certainly don’t belong in the newsroom. But as real journalists and journalism…

It’s growing clear to me that on a major story, covering the coverage is not a nice to have, it’s an essential. As Steve Outing noted in a recent Twitter Tweet, people in news events increasingly “most won’t alert news orgs anymore; they tell their ‘friends’ (via social networks). Up to news orgs to track…