First Draft by Tim Porter

Should all reporters blog? Absolutely not.
On line communication is fundamentally different from newspaper communication. Journalistic organisations have to stick by the rules of the media, so just throwing your articles on the Internet won't work - newspapers will have to blog and perhaps personalize their news, among other things. But weblogs won't replace newspapers - new media rarely replace old media. Yelling at newspapers that they all should be blogging will only work counterproductively, because you're thinking too highly of yourself.

> The Wall Street Journal quotes me today (being typically inarticulate)

So, would you prefer to be interviewed via email? And would the story 'prefer' it too? (would quotes-via-email make it better?)

If yes and yes, why do interviews still happen by phone?

Isn't this discussion about trust? If you don't trust you reporters to write something adequate to the quality of your newspaper without somenone else editing it - are these really the people you to work for you?
Also as a blogging reporter for Handelsblatt, Germany's biggest business and financial daily, I discovered that our online readers are far different from our print readers. Especially they want a different writing style (lighter, more aggressiv, more entertaining) from our print edition. A style, most of our editors wouldn't accept neither in print nor online.

Berry, I don't think the point is to blog instead of writing traditional news. The idea is to broaden our activities into blogs and other interactive forms. I think it's worth trying these things out.