Is Blogging The New Journalism?
For the last few years, the old media companies have belittled blogging - pretty much classifying it as writing for fun. Newspapers have long been the voice of truth and a credible source of information. Blogs on the other hand have been notorious for recycling news originally printed in the papers. Over the last few years there has been a major shift in the balance of power in professional journalism. Bloggers are now breaking news, and journalism is sovereign territory no more.
Reuters Africa is breaking new ground by meshing regular news articles with blog articles with the launch of their new website dedicated exclusively to the African continent. Journalism in Africa has been tricky, due to the fact that dissemination of information in past years could cost you your life. Blogging opens up unprecedented avenues of expression. I can't wait to see where this is headed.
Nope! most bloggers regurgiate or analyze what journalists have already written - hwo does the investigative work knocking on doors in search of information. - bloggers for the most part add spin
and opinion but the real ground work is still done by traditional jornalists
Yes its true that real ground work has always been done by traditional journalists. The problem is that the media houses that support these journalists are not making as much money as they used to. The average age of newspaper readers is getting older and older. Younger people get their news through new media today - which changes the whole news reporting dynamic quite a bit.
New media has some serious credibility issues that it has to overcome in order for it to be considered serious.