Should journalists blog?
This was a question Eileen Yu, for ZDNET Asia, asked a week ago.
“Should we, or shouldn’t we allow ourselves to blog in our capacity as journalists?” wrote Eileen.
“Do we need to differentiate blogs from news articles, and if we do, how should we go about doing that?”
Eileen answered her own questions here.
Of course journalists should blog.
Besides being able to write something that a journalist wouldn’t put as news, it also helps readers to understand the persona of the journalist.
Who is the journalist? Why is he/she interested in this particular technology? etc..
Journalists should be celebrities, especially those in the tech publications. An example would be John C Dvorak. Look at his group of followers from PC Mag, Cranky Geeks and Twit.tv.
A blog entry itself need not be long and the journalist can use it to his/her advantage by putting short posts on the latest technology.
Using the blog to share their favourite technology links, it helps to portray the tech journalist as somebody who is especially interested and up to date with the latest in tech.
Should journalists blog? Yes they should and their publishers should also encourage them.
Examples of journalists’ blogs include Loosewire , Iantan.org and budiputra.com .
If im a journalist, I will probably write in my own personal capacity with an alias.
The media scene just got more crazy as traditional and web media clashes.
Easy. I write about Cow 2.0 in my publication, and write about pro-Thaksin, anti-charter protesters who attended the Cow 2.0 event in my blog. Would I write about Cow 2.0 itself in a blog? No.
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