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Wall Street Journal
November 16, 2005
What the In-Crowd Knows
From Hollywood to Wall Street, Our Guide to the Blogs Insiders Read to Stay Current

The music industry has one, Wall Street bankers have several and even CPAs have come around.

No self-respecting industry these days is without a must-read blog. Although they vary wildly on fine points like accuracy, they are now so widely read that it's assumed anybody in the business is up to speed on the latest postings. For outsiders, they are also a window into the inner workings, preoccupations and gossip of fields ranging from real estate to mergers and acquisitions.

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Focused on TV news, the blog presents snippets from top stories of the day and is constantly updated with items ranging from major network decisions -- NBC's recent move to make its entire flagship "Nightly News" broadcast free on the Internet, for example -- to gossip about behind-the-scenes fighting at the morning news shows. TV Newser, which is hosted by the journalism-related Web site Media Bistro, also includes job listings and detailed parsing of ratings with a heavy focus on cable news channels. Towson University student Brian Stelter says he founded the site last year after being inspired by the blanket coverage the cable networks gave the start of the 2003 Iraq war.

---- Brooks Barnes