MSNBC Launches New Political Blog

Posted on September 8, 2006

MSNBC.com has launched First Read, a new political blog. The blog will be updated several times each day by MSNBC's political team. The blog's writers include Elizabeth Wilner, Mark Murray and Huma Zaidi. Rob Merrill, Daily Nightly editor, made the announcement in the Daily Nightly blog.

Just a note to let you know that we've launched a new blog in the mold of The Daily Nightly. First Read has been around for years now, but it's got a brand new bloggy look. NBC's Political Unit will do most of the heavy lifting, but you'll also get daily dispatches from NBC correspondents and producers covering politics and the campaign trail as Decision 2006 heats up. I'll continue to post political stuff here in The Daily Nightly when it relates to stories we're working on for the broadcast.

About the new blog, blogger Rob Howard writes, "It's definitely great to see news organizations using blogs more and more as the tool to communicate with their audiences. I'm sure newspapers are hating this since news gets published immediately instead of once a day." MSNBC.com has also been giving their blogs better URLs -- a change that began last year. Now MSNBC blogs like Clicked and Cosmic Log have more bloggish URLs.