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See you around, K-town
Posted By katie allison granju
Well, this is it - my last week with WBIR, and my final post as your blogmistress for Knoxville Talks.
Knoxville Talks has really been a personal labor of love for me. Since launching it at the beginning of 2008, I’ve published thousands of blog posts, and we’ve had about half-a-million page views. That’s evidence to me that Knoxville is hungry for the type of local, news-focused blog with a distinct voice and personality that I’ve tried to create with KT.
Of course, Knoxville is blessed to have a wonderfully rich and varied local blogosphere, even without me chiming in, and I appreciate all the support other bloggers have given Knoxville Talks.
I’m off to new adventures in digital content, and you can bet that you’ll see me start new blogging projects in the future. I’ve got lots of ideas.
In the meantime, I am leaving this blog in the very capable hands of WBIR, which has been a wonderful place to work in every possible way. I hope you will keep coming back as Knoxville Talks evolves with someone new driving the blog-bus.
It is my strong belief that very active blogs coming to you directly from “mainstream media” newsrooms - such as this one, A.C. Kleinheider’s blog and Michael Silence’s blog, as well as the groundbreaking newsroom blogs started by Britney Gilbert at WKRN and now at the CBS affiliate in San Francisco - represent a very important piece of what successful (and yes, profitable) journalism will become.
I believe a day is coming in the not-so-distant future when the bloggers hosted by your local TV news station, or your local newspaper will be just as well known in the community as the reporters you see on the air, or the op-ed columnists you read every Sunday. The news directors, publishers and managing editors who “get” this concept now are miles ahead of the pack. You watch and see.
But my time here is done. Thanks for reading, commenting, and linking; I’ve very much enjoyed keeping company with all of you!
Aug 6th, 2008
Thanks Katie. You created a great place for blogs and dialogues. All the best in your new vocation.
Katie-
Good luck in your new endeavors and thank you for all the debate that has taken place on your blog.
You’re a beautiful mom and I can tell that your family is your greatest joy.
Best wishes for a prosperous future.
You’ve done a great job. Congrats on so many page hits!!!
Katie;
Congratulations on your new assignment with Scripps. I sincerely hope we’ll be seeing more of you in the blogosphere in the days ahead. You will be deeply missed.
Oh. My. Word. … “a wonderfully rich and varied local blogosphere” is linked to KnoxViews.com??? I … am speechless.
R. Neal’s personal rant forum, where he kicked off a number of bloggers, whom he had invited to contribute, simply because they hold differing viewpoints than he … including some that never posted those views over there, just that they align differently politically on their own time and sites.
The R. Neal that has a cadre of secret moderators that sift through the comments and delete without explanation the ones that don’t conform with his idea of “progressive” thought???
Yes, the R. Neal that firmly espouses the notion of “speech is free unless we disagree” … ironically, his web site is as welcoming of dissenting viewpoints as Stacey Campfield’s.
It is his prerogative to run his site how he sees fit, I’m just guffawing at it being held out as representative of a “rich and varied” blogosphere.
Good luck out there, Katie. I do hope that this new position can make use of your talents and experience, and that we can continue to enjoy the same. You truly rock on the pop culture and family commentary, and I hope we get to see more of that!
Katie,
Best of luck in the new venture. I’m sure we’ll be hearing from you soon in regards to your new projects. Thanks, also, for linking to so many of our photos. We are glad you have enjoyed them and thought them worthy of sharing with our fellow readers of Knoxville Talks.
We wish you the best of success.
Well.
Katie,
You’ve done a great job with Knoxville Talks. You’ve left some hefty shoes to fill, and I hope whoever follows you isn’t overwhelmed by the enormity of the task of filling them.
I am, like others who have commented on this, your last post to KT, looking forward to whatever your next contribution to the blogosphere will be.
Katie, Thanks for all your groundbreaking, quality work here, and in many other places. I know you will continue to set a high bar and add thoughtul, stimulating discussion to our community discussion and beyond.
Good luck, Katie.
You were fantastic here. Looking to see your future endeavors.
Good Luck, Katie.
Thanks so much for all the kind comments, everybody. I really appreciate it!
-Katie
best wishes to you and thanks for your work to establish this blog. and thanks, too, for those times when you linked to my humble and lovable blog
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