Today, Chron.com launched its City Hall blog.
Three contributors have put up seven posts, and have been interacting with commenters.
There is no financial incentive for the Chron.com bloggers to post, as the blog is sort of an unpaid adjunct to their actual reporting jobs at the Chronicle (although it’s undoubtedly a smart career move to jump on the online reporting bandwagon early).
So far, the bloggers have covered several local political issues.
Contrast that with METRO’s Sit and Spin blog.
That blog recently celebrated its one-month anniversary with a statistical update (19 whopping posts — roughly one per workday!) and complaints about commenters.
As noted previously, the Sit and Spin blogger is paid $76,622/year plus benefits for what so far has been a one-post-per-workday pace. Previously, I estimated that taxpayers were effectively paying $320/post. However, if you divide Ms. Sit’s salary by 12 (the number of months in a year) and then divide by 19 (her posts for the first month), taxpayers paid roughly $336/post during Ms. Sit’s first month.
Substantively, we’ve been treated to rehashed press releases, features-type stories on employees who are thrifty lunchers, admonitions to be kind, and the like.
The Chron.com crew seem to be delivering much more value (and substance). I say give ’em a raise!
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