2. BLOG a website containing a writer’s or group of writers’ own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links to other websites.

3. BLOGGINGLIVE a uniquely digital format that has evolved in a way that is native to the web. Has rapidly became THE DOMINANT FORM for breaking news online.

5. does this mean that live blogging is the death of journalism? journalism

7. LIVE BLOGGING PP osts significant development quickly than news articles which require dozens of editing and re-editing. TT hey allow readers to link to related coverage. TT hey include comments from social media. TT hey allow the display of multimedia. TT hey include readers through the comments.

8. LIVE BLOGGING ALL THESE IN ONE PLACE!

9. “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.” -Neil McIntosh of Wall Street Journal

10. BUT

11. “You are more or less providing readers with raw material rather than telling them a story. You also tend to get swept up in the rush of events, and don't have nearly as much time as you'd like to think about what's happening and make connections, or write any sort of news analysis.” -Robert Mackey of New York Times

12. BLOGGINGLIVE requires CAREFUL, continuous signposting curating and managing of HUNDREDS of comments editors can deploy stories in unsuitable format

13. BLOGGINGLIVE “need a lot of content …, big enough audience…, and don‘t need someone curating content and telling what’s important.” – Benjamin Cohen of Channel 4 News

14. BLOGGINGLIVE {good?}{bad?}

15. “Live blogs don't work for everything, they give an instant reaction but they're not authenticated like website news stories. When it does work it makes web pages come to life.”

16. despite its drawbacks…

17. the best elements of live blogging – how it is so transparent about sources, how it dispenses with false journalistic fripperies and embraces the audience – are so strong that, rather than foretelling the death of journalism, the live blog is surely the embodiment of its future.