Best blogging newspapers in U.S.

Fifteen undergraduates in journalism, two grad students, and one professor set out to determine the top blogging newspapers in the U.S. among major dailies. Jay Rosen and his Blue Plate Special team at New York University found six standouts, two honorable mentions and some wacky blogs. Number One, in their opinion, was the Houston Chronicle.

Here are their top six
1. Houston Chronicle (128 points)
2. Washington Post (69 points)
3. USA Today (38 points, 1 honorable mention)
4. St. Petersburg Times (29 points, 2 honorable mention)
5. Atlanta Journal-Constitution (23 points)
6. San Antonio Express-News (22 points, 1 honorable mention)

Blogs that scored the most points were easy to find, user friendly, current, with quality of writing and good linking. The Houston Chronicle even has blogs written by the newspaper’s readers

Click on the headline above to read more about how they were chosen.

To see a list of the top 100 (listed by circulation) and their blogs, click here.

According to the list, the Beacon Journal has six blogs. I had real difficulty finding them, however, because they are not on the site map and unlike other newspapers, Ohio.com has no main blog listing [url]. There is one blog on Ohio.com for Diane Evans with no post on it since September. There also is a bad link on the BJ menu page. If you click on Discussion Boards, you go nowhere. The url apparently was at one time to Geocities, a site that has discussion boards. The BJ is now more into podcasts which are mp3 (sound) files you can download.