Back to Iraq is a blog created by Christopher Allbritton, a former AP and New York Daily News reporter. He created this blog to raise funds so he go to Iraq and write reports independently. He became the webs first fully reader-funded journalist blogger.
Christopher Allbritton uses the blog to post reports from Iraq, which not only account the news, but also his experience out there.
I think the posts on this blog do count as news, because they report what is happening in Iraq and are quite detailed. I also think the reader can trust these accounts more so than similar blogs like Baghdad burning, because the reports are coming from an already known/ trusted journalist.
Allbritton has since moved onto Beirut and also reports for a variety of publications, including Time Magazine.
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A good review - a bit short but you make the key points. You should have linked to the blog - and been a bit more specific - you could have talked about a specific post and linked to it.
Overall, it would be interesting to think some more about what does and doesn't count as journalism on weblogs. You're right - Allbriton clearly thinks of what he does as journalism... and it covers the news in a professional way, following the codes and conventions you expect of journalists... But it's interesting - blogs have contributed to an expansion of what counts as journalism...
Anyway, I'm rambling... nice post.
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