Here’s the blurb about the blogger summit on the WNBC website.
The world of media is changing, and WNBC.com has taken unprecedented steps to embrace the future. Wednesday night, the people who write more than 130 of New York’s most-read blogs came to our station, talking about the digital future.
New York’s first Blogger Summit was held in Studio 6A at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, known to many as the home of the Conan O’Brien Show. There, WNBC and the team of bloggers spent time talking about covering New York, its many niches, and the role "new media" plays in a world previously dominated by networks and newspapers.
The hope is that those bloggers will work with WNBC.com, trading news and information and giving additional exposure to big stories, both on blogs or on tv.
For example, if a blog gets a scoop on a big news story, WNBC would work with that blogger to report that story on television, giving more exposure to that blog. Also, if WNBC has video of a news event that might be interesting to a blogger, the blogger will have our blessing to post that video on their site.
The bottom line is… both the blogs and WNBC.com can now do a better job delivering news and information.
Before they arrived, we asked all the bloggers to answer a few questions for us, that show just how the "blog-o-sphere" works. Take the survey yourself, and see if any of these answers surprise you…
For the survey, go to their site.