New study finds that newspaper blogs fail to increase public dialogue - 0 views
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In the review of 360 newspapers, Ball State journalism professors Lori Demo and Mary Spillman along with Larry Dailey, a journalism professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, found that 42 percent of newspapers had blogs with political content but discovered commitment to blogging widely varied.
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Eighty percent of bloggers posted no responses to readers' comments.
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Facing declines in circulation, daily newspapers recently started offering blogs in hopes of emulating the success many citizen-produced blogs had in capturing a new audience.
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