After twenty years as a reporter for the Washington Post, Avis Thomas-Lester has become a blogger. Though somewhat of a Luddite, she seems to be taking it all in stride throughout her first blog post on Rapid Reinvention. Due to the change in the atmosphere and execution of news reporting, Thomas-Lester has been given her hardest assignment to date, one which she is quite frank about with her audience. This was not her decision, this was not her choice, but is she ever going to make the most of it: " you'll have me, blogging two or three times a day, in this very spot... I'll also be tweeting on Twitter, friending on Facebook and hoping that you Digg me." It's an instant immersion into the sea of social networking.
The ‘New Media: The Press Freedom Dimension’ conference, held in Paris, ends today. Yesterday, several prominent news experts discussed the development of online news, newspapers in relation to online news, legal implications of online news, and how it could, or couldn’t, help world press freedom.
![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2009/11/is_blogging_an_acceptable_replacement.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="4248" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="PH2009102903950.jpg" src="http://www.editorsweblog.org/PH2009102903950.jpg" width="80" height="72" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /></form><div>After twenty years as a reporter for the <i><b>Washington Post</b></i>, <b>Avis Thomas-Lester</b> has become a blogger. Though somewhat of a Luddite, she seems to be taking it all in stride throughout her first blog post on <b>Rapid Reinvention</b>. Due to the change in the atmosphere and execution of news reporting, Thomas-Lester has been given her hardest assignment to date, one which she is quite frank about with her audience. This was not her decision, this was not her choice, but is she ever going to make the most of it: " you'll have me, blogging two or three times a day, in this very spot... I'll also be tweeting on <b>Twitter</b>, friending on <b>Facebook</b> and hoping that you <b>Digg </b>me." It's an instant immersion into the sea of social networking.</div> &title=Is blogging an acceptable replacement?){kind=link}
