Brittney Gilbert takes blogger job at KPIX
Steve Safran September 11th, 2007
Local news blogging pioneer Brittney Gilbert has announced she is taking a gig at KPIX in San Francisco. Just a couple of months after leaving WKRN in Nashville amid controversy over a post she made at Nashville is Talking, Brittney finds herself in a similar lead-blogger role, this time in San Francisco. Here is some of Brittney’s announcement, from her blog Sparkwood & 21:
I’ll be working from within the newsroom Monday through Friday combing through all the blogs updated daily in the Bay Area, highlighting posts I find funny or provocative or insightful or informative. There will also be an automatic aggregator. Many of you may be familiar with the concept. If you are wondering why I said I wasn’t cut out for moderating a community blog site, only to take this job 8 weeks later, you likely aren’t the only one… luckily, I learned from my very public mistakes made at NiT, and I’ve taken them to heart. This new venture will be less about me. I’m not that interesting anyway. What I mean to say, though, is that I will put less of myself “out there” and concentrate more on building a vibrant blogging community in what is already one of the most wired places on earth.
Brittney was the first (as near as we can tell) blogger to be hired by a local newsroom for the purposes of blogging. We’re happy to see more stations opening up to the aggregator model, which is starting to take off now after a couple of years of preaching. Congrats to Brittney on the new gig.
2 Comments Add your own
1. mike | September 12th, 2007 at 5:01 am
Brittney was a pioneer. Plucked from the local blogosphere and set down in the middle of a skeptical newsroom armed only with Terry Heaton’s vision of a TV station connecting, listening and facilitating a conversation with its viewers she helped create something totally unique. It was hard work and as always when navigating without a map there were a few missed turns along the way but the journey was enjoyable and Nashville is Talking became the homebase for many bloggers in and out of the area. Kudos to KPIX for recognizing and hiring a unique and talented lady.
2. "John Galt" | September 13th, 2007 at 6:07 am
I suspect the Mike above had much to do with Brittney’s and NiT’s success by developing and steadfastly supporting it. His tenacity gave the concept the time it took to mature.
Unfortunately, much of their pioneering work has been destroyed by the site’s claimed evolution to NiT 2.0 which is “on the way” but meanwhile a couple of inmates have commandeered the asylum and most of the saner heads have abandoned it.
Brittney was destined for this success and richly deserves it.
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