This week it was announced that Jim Romenesko, founder of the self titled blog run through the Poynter Institute website, will be retiring from the blog at some point next year. Mr Romeneskos blog is widely considered to be the first news aggregation site and allowed readers to connect through an online community in which they could debate and comment on the story of the day.
According to the New York Times Mr. Romenesko describes his decision as a ‘semi-retirement’. “I’m not going to be doing three-sentence summaries of other people’s work, that’s behind me,” he said.
Instead Mr Romenesko will focus his efforts into his new website JimRomenesko.com which will, in addition to media, discuss other topics such as food, finance and real estate.
Since beginning my studies of Journalism I have enjoyed reading Mr Romeneskos work and am excited to see that the Romenesko blog on the Pointer Institute website will continue to operate and host his works after his retirement.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/business/media/jim-romenesko-an-original-blogger-about-journalism-retires.html
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/romenesko-medias-chronicler-announces-retirement/
http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=5136
http://www.poynter.org/
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