Blog postings about my future employment at KPIX are bubbling up around the sphere:
In another sign that local stations are embracing new media and new ideas, CBS5 has hired a woman specifically to be a blogger. Yes, Brittney Gilbert joins the station on Nov. 19. Channel 5 officials are heralding her as the first person to be hired by a local station to do the blog thing. In her new role, she’ll “spearhead a new community interaction feature by combing through the many blogs updated daily in the Bay Area, highlighting posts that she finds funny, provocative, insightful or informative on her blog.”
And now beleaguered newspaper TV critics everywhere will begin to wonder: How did it happen that we do this stuff for free?
San Francisco Peninsula Press Club:
Blogs and bloggers come and go, but Brittney Gilbert may be the first blogger hired by a local television newsroom for the purposes of blogging. She has been plying the blogging trade at Nashville’s WKRN, an ABC affiliate, operating the site shown here, Nashville is Talking (Think SFist.com). CBS 5 has announced it has plucked Gilbert out of Music City and brought her to Baghdad by the Bay. She starts Nov. 19.
Now, here’s a job description we never thought would get through H.R.: Local newscast blogger…Blogs. Not just a funny word anymore. It’s a way of life.
Like the weather.
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Urm… Be careful. Spending too much time swimming in The River Me can be detrimental to one’s self-image.
No biggie, just gettin’ concerned, that’s all. I’m happy for you, though, never forget that. You’ve walked a tough road and you deserve your successes.
I hear what you are saying, but I use this blog as a way to archive blog postings and other articles on the web that I would like to reference later. Don’t read too much into it.
I understand. Thanks for clearing that up!
I thought about what you said on the drive home, and it’s good advice. I’m glad you spoke up, because you’ve been reading a long time, and I really respect your opinion. Maybe I should start bookmarking these in delicious instead of here. Or, better yet, just unpublish the links maybe? Just save them as drafts?
It is hard not to look like an ass when you write about yourself on a personal blog. I want to avoid looking like a big-headed ass as much as possible. Not to mention being one. Anyway, yeah. You are probably right.
CBS5 has hired a woman specifically to be a blogger.
Woman??? Blogger??? Ho, ho. Next you’ll tell me they can drive cars and vote.
California truly is light years ahead of us.
Actually, I think it’s a good idea to archive these links somewhere, and considering that this is your blog, what better place could there be to archive them? (I’d do an offline archive as well — PDFs and Adobe Digital Editions perhaps, or a bibliography app — but that’s just me.)
My concern wasn’t actually about collecting the links, it was more about staying grounded while the blog world is buzzing about you. I know if I was in your position, I’d have a very difficult time not “drinking my own Kool-Aid,” for lack of a better description. :)
I’m sure you’ll be fine, though.
SFist? Never do anything on the ‘net with the word “fist” in it!
This would actually make a nice tagline for a personal blog:
“Blogs. Not just a funny word anymore. It’s a way of life.”
Congratulations! I am so excited for you-and jealous. I’d love to move to San Fran. Have fun!
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