Griff Wigley: Media Companies

The American Prospect

The American Prospect has a collaborative weblog called Tapped that it's been publishing since late March of 2002.

Subterranean Homepage News

Sheila Lennon is Features & Interactive Producer at The Providence Journal's projo.com, and maintains the weblog, Subterranean Homepage News.

She is indeed a journalist, and a long-time one at that. I mistakenly assumed otherwise when I noted her weblog back in April.

My apologies, Sheila.

New York Times and Userland

This is month-old news and it's not the usual org blog, but it's important to have it listed in the media category. Any publishing company, especially magazines and newspapers, should consider doing something similar:

NEW YORK, April 10, 2002 - NYTimes.com announced today that it had reached an agreement with UserLand Software to distribute content from NYTimes.com to the network of Radio UserLand 8.0 desktop content management users. This new feature allows New York Times links to flow, with reader annotation, through the growing network of “Weblog” sites published with Radio 8.

National Review

A group weblog (at least 8 contributors), in operation since January.

Providence (R.I.) Journal

Two staffers at the Providence (R.I.) Journal maintain blogs:

Dave McPherson's Net Runner: http://www.projo.com/technology/netrunner/
Sheila Lennon's Subterranean Homepage News: http://www.projo.com/technology/shenews/

Lennon's a journalist and part of their web team. She evidently writes the blog in addition to her other duties.

Both blogs are technology focused, though Lennon pays closer attention to music-related technology news.

Christianity Today

This media company's weblog is a roundup of religion-related news, with opinion interspersed. Looks top-notch.

Each weekday, Ted Olsen or other Christianity Today staff summarize (and often comment on) religion news and views appearing around the world, from major media, smaller newspapers, foreign sources, and other sites. Weblog is a compilation of articles, and therefore doesn't involve any original reporting, nor does it necessarily strive to separate hard news from opinion.