DanielDrezner.com’s new motto
Robert Tagorda highlights Matt Welch’s essay on blogs in the prestigious Columbia Journalism Review. I found this graf from Robert’s post pretty funny: I can only add that professional writers should consider regularly tapping academic blogs as useful resources. I remember, for instance, that the Las Vegas Review-Journal cited Eugene Volokh’s posts on the Nevada ...
Robert Tagorda highlights Matt Welch's essay on blogs in the prestigious Columbia Journalism Review. I found this graf from Robert's post pretty funny:
Robert Tagorda highlights Matt Welch’s essay on blogs in the prestigious Columbia Journalism Review. I found this graf from Robert’s post pretty funny:
I can only add that professional writers should consider regularly tapping academic blogs as useful resources. I remember, for instance, that the Las Vegas Review-Journal cited Eugene Volokh’s posts on the Nevada Supreme Court. Perhaps other papers can turn to the likes of Brad DeLong, Juan Cole, Kieran Healy, Mark Kleiman, and Dan Drezner for their expert opinion (the last one, it seems, can even give paparazzi a pointer or two about Hollywood sex goddesses!). To be sure, academic blogs make up just part of the blogosphere. But for journalists, these blogs probably belong among the 10% that “aren’t crap.”
Yes, I should put this somewhere on my cv: DanielDrezner.com:
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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