Blogger VS Journalist..Are blogger journalist? For me, I think that a blogger can’t be considered as a journalist. But, nothing stops a blogger from being a journalist and vice versa, some bloggers are journalist too but most are NOT. The definition of blog from The Merriam Webster is a website that contains an online personal journal with reflection, comments, and often hyperlinked provided by the writer. While the definition of journalist is a person engaged in journalism especially a writer or editor for news medium / a writer that who aims at a mass audience.
In my opinion, BLOG is an online diary that allowed people to express themselves, air opinions and promote themselves - and, by extension, their products and services. While JOURNALISM is a job/career, they are publisher, editor, reporter, or other person connected with or employed upon a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical publication, mostly they are paid to do their job. They have the rights to collect the information and publish it in the dailies to cover the people.
However, bloggers have much in common with journalists activities; because, bloggers also have rights to collect information. Bloggers helps the journalist by collecting and posting recent updated information happening in the world, and there are so many journalists and reporting organizations whose resources will help bloggers produce better, more accurate work.
With much in common as well as many differences, bloggers and mainstream journalists should be looking into one another for ideas on how to navigate our newly revised media world.
So Bloggers need only to look at the ethical standards developed by various journalism groups to get ideas on important issues to be included in a bloggers' guide. A media executive who moonlight as a blogger as it is necessary; the journalist need to hear some news from the blogger and from the public, to reveal information.
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