BLACKSBURG, Va., April 17 (UPI) -- Many U.S. newspapers covered the Virginia Tech massacre using brief bloglike entries on their Web sites, a survey of newspapers found.
The New York Times updated its readers on the rising death toll and other news with a blog called The Lede, the newspaper trade weekly Editor & Publisher reported.
"For quite a while, the top headline at the Times' site asserted that 20 had been killed while The Lede blog had the number at 22, then 29, then 32, with much other detail as well," the magazine said.
The Lede on Tuesday displayed a photo of alleged shooter Cho Seung-hui while the newspaper Web site's home page ran a picture of mourning students.
Other newspapers reporting through blogs on their Web sites included Virginia Tech campus paper The Collegiate Times, The Roanoke (Va.) Times, The Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch and The Washington Post, the magazine said.
The Collegiate Times reported Tuesday social-networking Web site Facebook had "been hit with an influx of recent 'groups' created to honor the Tech students."
"By searching 'Tech Shooting,' 362 groups come up as hits, most of them dedicated to the memory of the students and their families," the newspaper's blog entry reported. "One group created by Tech Student Tim Hall is called 'April 16, 2007 -- A Moment of Silence' and has 8,712 members thus far."
