Meredith Viera Starts a Blog on iVillage

Posted on October 5, 2006

NBC News' Today co-anchor Meredith Viera has started a blog on iVillage. Meredith Viera began her blogging the day after the shocking Amish school murders. It made it a difficult start to blogging for her as she explained on her first post.

This is a hard day to start a blog, because as much as I'd love to be upbeat, I'm worried sick about the families in Pennsylvania who've suffered such a terrible tragedy because of yesterday's shooting at their school.

I know I'm a newswoman, but I'm also a mother and it's impossible to put that aside on a day like today. I'm at a loss to try to understand why someone would do this. I keep thinking about the reports (if they are true) that this man was seeking revenge for something that happened to him when he was 12, and wondering 'what was it?'

As we mentioned in an earlier post, iVillage has been building a blog network for their female readership. Viera's blog makes a total of at least eleven blogs on iVillage. iVillage also has plans to add video and social networking tools to the site.