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Steven Taylor notes that the Austin American-Statesman has started a weblog just covering the Texas state legislature. It seems to me that the Clarion-Ledger could easily do the same thing for the Mississippi Legislature and provide a much more useful service to its readers than its typical output of 2–3 articles a day during the session.
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Start it up :P Seems like that’d be a good thing to do for a PoliSci Prof. from Millsaps.
We’ve got legislative reporters in Olympia, Wash., and Boise, Idaho. We pitched blogs to them a while ago, and after a bit of initial hesitation over workload, they both agreed to give them a shot. Now they both blog hardcore, and from what I understand, material that goes into the blog ends up getting repackaged for print on a weekly basis. I think they’re a great service for readers who are interested in captial goings-on, because as you note, most papers can’t devote a whole lot of newshole in print.
Jim: I don’t have that sort of free time—or an army of reporters to deploy. Although maybe if I duped a bunch of students into thinking it was an internship program I could make it work. ☺
There are probably people other than the C-L who could do it, but I wouldn’t trust either the Magnolia Report or Jackson Free Press to keep their biases out of the reporting (and, more importantly, the choices of what to cover).