American Journalism Review Articles on Weblogs

My Mass Communications Theory final is to write a literature review on my topic of interest, which in this case is weblogs. My professor wants a mix of academic and professional publications, leaning more toward the academic. Confession: In all my undergraduate years, I didn't touch an academic journal on mass communications. We learned by doing, which is about the only way to learn the practice of journalism. Now that I'm in my graduate years, I'll have to head in a more "scholarly" direction. I certainly hope ThesisBlog readers don't turn up their noses at American Journalism Review like this page on Washington & Lee University's web site did:

Obviously . . . American Journalism Review and the like are not scholarly titles.
Even such sources as the Gallup Poll and Public Opinion do not qualify for inclusion in the two-article requirement because they merely report findings without developing a literature review or purposefully testing an hypothesis.

Scholarly or not, here are the eight articles their internal search engine says American Journalism Review has written on weblogs. I may write separate posts on some or all of them.

Every Last Word: Sources who publish transcripts of their interviews? It's becoming more common.
-- Extensive mentions of weblogs. Will have to write a separate piece on this one.

Tough Calls: Deciding when a suicide is newsworthy and what details to include are among journalism's more sensitive decisions.
-- Just mentions Jim Romenesko's weblog.

The Metamorphosis: The past 25 years have brought vast changes in the technology and corporate structure of journalism.
-- Lots of interesting thoughts, but with just one glancing mention of weblogs.

Et Tu, St. Pete?: Media ethicists are appalled by a venerable newspaper's deal to get its name on a Tampa arena.
-- Just mentions Jim Romenesko's weblog.

Scribe's Secret: The Houston Chronicle fires reporter Steve Olafson after learning he was the author of a local Weblog.
-- Will have to write a separate piece.

Journalistic Blogging: Mainstream news organizations could steal an idea or two from blogs.
-- Separate piece on the way.

Online Uprising: Many in the mainstream media dismiss the screeds of bloggers--people who post their views on their own Web logs--as so much blather. But to this Los Angeles writer, these maverick sites are well worth exploring.
-- Can you guess?

Not So Bad: The performance of online news sites on September 11 was better than the early reviews suggest.
-- That's right.

By the way, does American Journalism Review have the world's longest subheads? In two of the above links, that's not even the entire subhead.