Kate's First Apartment: The Blog

Posted on October 30, 2006

The New Jersey Daily Record has a number of blogs including the typical blogs by columnists covering local news, sports, culture and entertainment. However, they just recently launched a new one called Kate's First Apartment. Kate is Kate McLoughlin. She's a new copy editor at the newspaper and she's hunting for her very first apartment. The blog will detail Kate's hunt for a place to live.

Kate began working as a copy editor at the Daily Record in July, after graduating from Lehigh University. She's been living in her uncle's apartment since then -- and is being booted out Dec. 1, when the lease is up. So the 22-year-old is on a quest to find an affordable apartment -- her first apartment -- in the Morris County area.

The idea may actually be a solid one and could attract young readers since getting that first apartment is something we all through -- unless you are lucky enough to jump right into a house. The blog might interest young readers who are also apartment hunting. The question to ask is will the blog continue with the moving in, finding furniture, etc. and then the life inside Kate's apartment after she finally finds a place? Or, will Kate start writing about a new subject and change the name of her blog?