John Thompson at Journalism.co.uk was kind enough to include virtualeconomics.co.uk amongst his picks for top five journalism blogs of 2010 (thanks John!), so I've run another Google reading age filter over all thirteen of the blogs listed (three people got a pick, two of the blogs were picked twice) with the results you see to the left. I'm afraid both Wannabe Hacks and After Deadline return data anomalies.
As with all of these analyses, it's only really of curiosity value (and bragging rights for either Jay Rosen or Rich Millington, depending on whether you think the language of a journalism blog should be advanced or accessible), not least because we're still not sure how Google arrives at these results and some of them - such as news aggregators consistently coming out with a higher reading age than their constituents - are peculiar. Still, it's an excuse to say thanks to the Journalism.co.uk guys for reading, it adds a bit of potentially-contentious pseudo-analysis to the whole thing, and it's an excuse to point out that if you're not reading any of the below (especially Pressthink, my personal favourite) you really should be.
Nieman Lab
10,000 words
Virtual Economics
The Media Blog
Wannabe Hacks
Currybet – Martin Belam
Headlines and Deadlines – Alison Gow
David Higgerson
Ed Walker
Feverbee
Currybet – Martin Belam
After Deadline – New York Times
Pressthink – Jay Rosen
Headlines and Deadlines – Alison Gow
Malcolm Coles
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