Telling untold stories on a newspaper blog

Newspapers are finding different ways to use blogs as a reporting tool. The LA Times used a blog to tell the untold stories of homicide victims in Los Angeles. Reader reaction has been emotional and strong. Until reporter Jill Leovy started writing about the victims on the blog, the print newspaper had covered only about 10% of the city's homicides. Her work documents what Leovy calls "a pocket epidemic of violent death among black and Latino men in neglected corners of society.'