Sunday, May 08, 2005

Bloggers learning tools of reporting

Bloggers learning tools of reporting: Bloggers -- those Internet-based writers without rules -- are fighting back against criticism that their work is unreliable, libelous or just poorly written.

More than 300 of them were in Nashville Friday for a weekend conference heavy on training in techniques used by journalists in what bloggers term the mainstream media.

A classroom full of bloggers sat at computer stations at the Freedom Forum at Vanderbilt University, learning how to access government statistical databases and analyze the material in them."

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