Reporters live blogging trials is indeed "the wave of the future" as LexBlog writes today. I've seen it myself. The concern I have as a litigation pr practitioner is the difficulty it creates in helping reporters with background and context. If they are pounding on the keys during trial, there is scant time for asking questions. On the positive side, it means more work for our profession. It increases the importance of early engagement and education. And someone has to sit next to that blogging reporter and keep him/her focused on the facts. For clients reading this, the growth of this form of reportage means that you have to seriously consider live blogging your own trials, too, when it makes sense and the judge is amenable. On that last point, I suspect that jurists are going to be increasingly comfortable, or at least less resistant, to live courtroom blogging.

Updated 1/22/2009 11:10:30 PM

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