Merger blogger merges with the NYT

Although the WSJ has been, in my view, a leader in integrating blogs with mainstream, the stodgy old NYT has taken a leap forward by more bringing on a law professor to do a regular blogging stint. They’ve got Steven Davidoff, who’s done a great job nailing mergers and acquisitions for Caron’s blog network, and now moves his act to Broadway, so to speak.

Note that this is one of the outcomes of the competition between the mainstream media and what I called “publicly engaged academic posts” that I predicted in my Public Face of Scholarship:

If PEAPs and other blogs can effectively compete with the professional media, the professional outlets have an incentive to respond by changing their content. . . . The professional media might hire journalists from outside the “guild,” including amateur journalists.