• Introduction
• What is Live Blog?
• The Basics
• What readers see
• What journalists see
• Getting to know Live Blog
• Contributors and editors
• Getting work done
• What contributors do
• What editors do
• What administrators do
• Appendix
• Getting help
• About this manual

What journalists see

The place where journalists spend most of their time in Live Blog is the Blog Edit view.

Blog Edit consists of two panes in your browser window.

The left pane is where content is originated and edited. The right pane contains the live blog's timeline, into which items are published. This timeline looks very similar to what the reader sees when the live blog is published on your website.

In fact, you can see exactly how the timeline will look to your readers any time you like by clicking on the blue Live link at the top of the timeline in the Blog Edit view.

This will open a new tab in your browser, containing the published timeline.

Roles

Depending on what type of user you are, the Blog Edit view offers you a significantly different set of features. Live Blog has two core roles: contributor and editor. Learn about these in the chapter Contributors and editors.