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Welcome to the second in a series of posts about beginning blogging for journalists. If you’re new to the series, feel free to view previous posts, including: Getting to know your niche. [...]

Online marketer Andy Beal makes note of a Brodeur and MarketWire survey (pdf) which found that 75 percent of journalists use blogs to generate story ideas. This sounds like an awesome statistic - but I’m not so sure I believe it.
Jerry Johnson, head of strategic planning at Brodeur, clarifies a little in a press release:
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Michigan State University journalism professor Dave Poulson asked me to talk to his computer-assisted reporting class next week about all the fun web tools journalists should use to help do their jobs. Exciting! I have a few ideas so I thought I would put them down and then ask you what tools you think I [...]