How journalists use blogs - CyberJournalist.net Jonathan Dube points to Nick Wingfield’s conversation with Bulldog Reporter about how journalists use blogs. When organizations and companies ask me why they should care about blogs – and why they should consider blogging themselves – the first part of my answer focuses on the fact that increasingly, the blogosphere is influencing what journalists write. So if you want to have your side of the story represented in the blogosphere, you need to get in there yourself and be part of the conversation.
CBC Lockout: Weekend Wrapup (I Love Radio .org): From Todd Maffin’s ILoveRadio.org. Striking CBC journalists, locked out from doing their regular on-air jobs, are blogging and podcasting instead. He points to debate over whether this is or isn’t a good idea. It certainly proves that journalists no longer necessarily need to be inside their radio and TV stations to produce programming… Then there are other questions: whether it’s as “good” as what they were doing before (however “good” is defined) and what this says about the nature of journalism, who does it, and how it gets funded… (Thanks to Ethan for the link.)
Blogumentary: VLOG NEWS. Chuck Olsen, who has made a great documentary about blogs (I saw it a few weeks ago), points to a proliferation of news on the general proliferation of video blogging. Will some striking TV journalists (or laid off ones, or ones who quit because they got fed up with their organizations) become VLoggers too?
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