Not all bloggers are journalists, and not all journalists are bloggers. Living in a postmodernist world, the lines between many traditionally decided subjects are blurred and it is getting more and more difficult to differentiate between pioneering, innovation and creation. Journalism has existed as early as the 1600s, and has evolved into an extremely vast and versatile universe of writing, photography, documentary and many more. A not-so-recent paradigm shift of the internet began with the invention of blogging, a portmanteau of 'web' and 'logging'. This online trend served the society in many ways, benefiting the producers as well as the receivers with an impact relatively akin to journalism. That is, however, not the complete picture. Let us begin by comparing the definitive context of these two terms.
Journalism - the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the citizenry. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and business, journalism also covers cultural aspects of society such as arts and entertainment. - Wikipedia.org
Blogging - a type of website or part of a website usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. - Wikipedia.org
As you can see, what journalism consists of include facts and anything that is thought to be facts. Blogging, on the other hand, could be about the happenings of our society, current issues and generic details of a persona, and still could be anything of interest, general blabbering, advertising purposes and many more. Therefore, if you ask me, not all bloggers are journalists.
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