Newspaper sites taking to blogging?

Via Editor & Publisher: For newspaper Web sites today, even if blogs seem to be the best way to keep an audience, the trick seems to be formulating a new recipe for them. Newspapers claim they have always run articles and columns similar to blogs. For example, Bill Grueskin of The Wall Street Journal Online said, "We've been doing things for some time, even before they were called blogs," pointing out The Daily Fix, launched in 2001, which gathers the best sports cyber news and The Health Scan, which focuses on big stories in health. Terminology seems to trouble some editors even now, not to mention the controversy over editing blogs submitted by non-reporters. Even though "there's a real role for blogs in the future of online journalism," according to Douglas Feaver of washingtonpost.com, it may very well take mainline news sites some time to embrace blogging as readers have.