NYT article on convention bloggers features Pam's House Blend
Submitted by Pam Spaulding on Sat, 08/23/2008 - 12:11pm
A couple of days ago I mentioned that I was interviewed by Amanda Millner-Fairbanks of the New York Times for a feature. She told me that it was likely to run Sunday, but it actually published today on its web site. It will be in the print edition tomorrow (on page ST1 of the New York edition).
The article, "The Year of the Political Blogger Has Arrived," is about bloggers and the 2008 Democratic National Convention, focusing on some of the logistical and financial hurdles faced by bloggers to cover the event. She also spoke with the DNCC about the challenges of including new media/citizen journalists as members of the credentialed media.
Other bloggers are interviewed, including Phillip Anderson from The Albany Project and John Odum of Green Mountain Daily.
A snippet is below the fold.
A couple of days ago I mentioned that I was interviewed by Amanda Millner-Fairbanks of the New York Times for a feature. She told me that it was likely to run Sunday, but it actually published today on its web site. It will be in the print edition tomorrow (on page ST1 of the New York edition).
The article, "The Year of the Political Blogger Has Arrived," is about bloggers and the 2008 Democratic National Convention, focusing on some of the logistical and financial hurdles faced by bloggers to cover the event. She also spoke with the DNCC about the challenges of including new media/citizen journalists as members of the credentialed media.
Other bloggers are interviewed, including Phillip Anderson from The Albany Project and John Odum of Green Mountain Daily.
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The Year of the Political Blogger Has Arrived
WHEN Pam Spaulding heard from two contributors to her blog, Pam’s House Blend, that they couldn’t afford to attend the Democratic National Convention, she knew that historic times called for creative measures.
UNPAID HOBBY Pam Spaulding called on readers to help her get to the Democratic convention.
Getting convention credentials for her blog, a news site for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, was the easy part. As air fare, lodging and incidentals began piling up, paying for the trip to Denver became the bigger obstacle.
For Ms. Spaulding, 45, who works full time as an IT manager at Duke University Press in Durham, N.C., blogging is her passion, an unpaid hobby she pursues at nights and on weekends. So she called on her 5,500 daily readers to help raise funds: “Send the Blend to Denver” reads the ChipIn widget on her blog’s home page that tracks donations from readers; so far they have pledged more than $5,000 to transport Ms. Spaulding and three other bloggers to the convention.
Beginning Monday, hundreds of bloggers will descend on Denver to see Barack Obama accept his party’s nomination. Next week, hundreds more will travel to St. Paul to witness John McCain’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. But now these online partisans, many of whom are self-financed, must contend with all the logistical and financial hurdles just to get there — not to mention the party politics happening behind the scenes.
Photo: Jeremy M. Lange for The New York Times
The NYT coverage was fair
It seems a lot of MSM outlets are interested in how bloggers are dealing with this. Funny how I've received many more queries from national outlets than local ones. Someone from the WaPo wants to set up an interview as well.
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Pam Spaulding
Durham, NC USA
Pam's House Blend
www.pamshouseblend.com
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Pam Spaulding
Durham, NC USA
Pam's House Blend
www.pamshouseblend.com
Congrats, Pam!
I read this article this morning and was psyched to see you were in it. You're a great spokesperson for the netroots.
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Congratulations Pam's House Blend
Continue taking blogging to the next level. Look forward to reading your take on the DNC.
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