Guardian 28.3.2011
...Hello and welcome to an article about live blogging, a discussion of a format that has been derided as murdering traditional reporting but is almost certainly the most important journalistic development of the past year. Unfortunately, it's impossible to sustain the live blog format beyond that opening conceit. Because that is the key point; live blogging is a uniquely digital format that has evolved in a way that is native to the web.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/28/live-blogging-transforms-journalism/printThis year, as the Arab revolutions have unfolded, live blogging has rapidly become the dominant form for breaking news online – deployed by virtually every major news organisation on their home page and the online answer to 24/7 television news.
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On fast-moving stories, live blogs give the ability to post significant developments quickly – more quickly than editing and re-editing a news article. They also allow us to link out to other coverage, to include comments from Twitter and Facebook, to display multimedia (pictures, video and audio), and to include our audience in the comments below the line – all in one place. Neil McIntosh, the online editor of the Wall Street Journal Europe, says: "It's a form that's charming in its directness; at its best it generally does away with any writerly conceits, and demands the author just get on with telling you what's just happened."
But there are drawbacks:
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