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Bryan Murley at Innovation in Colllege Media has an interesting interview with Howard Owens, the Director of Digital Publishing at Gatehouse Media, Inc., which owns more than 400 community newspapers. Owens says:

Every student journalist should spend at least six months totally immersed in blogging. Start a blog and try to draw an audience. Do the things that bloggers need to do, read other blogs, create a blog roll, link to other blogs, post frequently on topics relevant to the audience you’re trying to reach (and read those blogs in that category), comment on other blogs. Learn to be a participant. That’s my advice to pro journalists, too: if you want to learn this culture, become a participant in it. It will totally change the way you think about media and online publishing.

Also be sure to visit Owens’ Media Blog. Lots of interesting ideas there.

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