2005: TV Types Turn Into Bloggers

By Brian 

> Dec. 2: WNT’s blog, The Blue Sheet, will be expanding in 06

> Dec. 1: NBC launches “Blogging Baghdad”

> Oct. 11: MSNBC.com launches Hurricane Blogs and enjoys record blog traffic

> Sept. 29: Jake Tapper’s “Down & Dirty” becomes the “most personal, raw example of blogging by a television news personality”

> Sept. 19: ABCNews.com launches several blogs by correspondents

> Sept. 12: CBSNews.com launches the Public Eye blog

> Aug. 28: During Katrina, FNCs’ Steve Harrigan, MSNBC’s David Shuster and CNN’s Miles O’Brien blog from the Gulf Coast

> Aug. 26: FNC’s GretaWire celebrates its two year anniversary

> Aug. 25: NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams says: “I don’t have a therapist. I have my blog”

> Aug. 18: The Daily Nightly is becoming a “running narrative” of NBC’s reporting day

> July 20: GretaWire, FNC host Greta Van Susteren’s blog, gets more than 150,000 hits a day

> July 19: NBC’s broadcast standards producer blogs on MSNBC.com

> June 20: An update on CNN’s “Inside the Blogs”

> June 9: Sean Hannity launches the HanniBlog

> May 27: CNBC launches a “Squawk Blog” to connect viewers with hosts

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