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Check it out: WaPo Guidance on Blogging

With more than 50 blogs on its Web site, washingtonpost.com and their counterparts at the Washington Post have learned quite a bit about blogging. And lucky us, they’ve decided to package their collective wisdom in a single memo on this ever-evolving news art.

Here it is.

8 Responses to “Check it out: WaPo Guidance on Blogging”

  1. IMGoph Says:

    so does this mean that it’s time to really axe the dcwire blog?

  2. 43bits » Check it out: WaPo Guidance on Blogging Says:

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  3. Washington City Paper: News & Features: Blogs Says:

    [...] the Post has truly cracked the code of what works on newspaper blogs, well, we’ve been doing it wrong; see “What Doesn’t Work,” bullet point No. [...]

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    [...] Washington City Paper: WaPo Guidance on Blogging Post memo guides staffers on launching, writing and deep-sixing blogs. [...]

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    [...] Washington City Paper (via Romenesko): Memo helps WPers decide when, how and whether to blog [...]

  6. Wordblog » Blog Archive » Should blogs be edited? Says:

    [...] memo, available at the Washington City Paper, talks a lot of sense about blogging. It includes the need [...]

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    [...] Washington City Paper got its hands on the Washington Post’s internal guide to blogging - and it contains several [...]

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    [...] Washington City Paper posted a memo outlining the Washington Post’s blog standards for what works and what doesn’t. Download the pdf or check out the full text at Adrian [...]

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