Inside big blog & media minds

Big minds from the Big Media and Big Blog worlds have responded to Jay Rosen’s request for feedback on the recent blog conference at Harvard.

Check out the great read here. One of my favourite comments is this one from New York Times Managing Editor Jill Abramson:

The conference left me with a greater appetite than ever to figure out ways that a place like the Times can capture some of the vitality and energy and voice that makes so many blogs so readable and useful, without completely sacrificing the standards that guide our news reporting and editing.

And, finally, while I still have a huge amount to learn about blogs, I wish you guys would try to learn and understand more about traditional journalism– like calling anyone named in a story in a prominent way for comment (even when you are sure your facts are right.) You can be accurate and unfair. I don’t ever want to impose our standards on blogs, but I wish you all at least knew the walk we walk.

I’ve got this theory that many non-journalist bloggers have a greatly simplified view of journalism. Jill’s sentiment suggests we need less antagonism from bloggers directed at journalists, and I agree. If we truly believe journalists and bloggers serve different, complementary functions, then less antagonism and more cooperation can only be a good thing.

(link thanks to Dan Gillmor.)