Think-About-Tech - User's Blog Feed (KerryMG) Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:03:30 +0100 http://www.thinkabouttech.com/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.5a & Feed Publisher Bloggers and Journalists http://www.thinkabouttech.com/discussion/59/bloggers-and-journalists/?Focus=245#Comment_245 http://www.thinkabouttech.com/discussion/59/bloggers-and-journalists/?Focus=245#Comment_245 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:39:49 +0000 KerryMG We humans love many inexplicable things, stuff that is bad for us, stuff that has no practical use and people that have no discernable talent. What we seem to hate is not being able to put a neat and tidy label on things, which is why the increasing blurring of boundaries between journalist and blogger is confusing the hell out of a lot of people in the communications industry.

Back in the day it was easy, you had journalists, they came in different flavours which depended on their chosen medium for output. Now it’s all a tad more difficult. Now you could say that a blogger is a person who writes a blog but there are many examples of journalists who blog and of main stream media outlets that have blogs which sit alongside more traditional news and opinion pieces. There are also examples of bloggers who have become journalists, which...

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