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Mar 26, 2007
- Posted by Bill
Reynolds
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra J. Saunders has reignited the debate over whether or not bloggers are journalists. Her recent column argues that Josh Wolf, a blogger who has been in jail for over six months for refusing to hand over a video of a violent protest to a federal grand jury, “is not a journalist” but rather: “a blogger with an agenda and a camera, who sold a ‘selected portion’ of the video of the demonstration, which left a San Francisco police officer with a fractured skull, to KRON-TV.”
Mar 01, 2007
- Posted by Bill
Reynolds
Guardian scribe Jemima Kiss reports that online news veteran Vin Crosbie is fed up with citizen journalism, recently writing on a Poynter discussioin group that it “isn't journalism at all and a lot of it is simply b*llsh#t.” Kiss says the media have lost touch with their readers, embracing citizen journalism in an ineffectual attempt to regain credibility with readers. The media need to look beyond hype to trends that serve their audience now and in the future.
Feb 13, 2007
- Posted by Heather
McCall
The most widely read and respected sources of "unofficial" news and commentary about the craft.
Oct 12, 2006
- Posted by Bill
Reynolds
The Internet has and will continue to have a huge impact on mainstream journalism argues Alan Bass, an assistant professor at Thompson Rivers University's School of Journalism in Kamploops, B.C. Bass points to the ways the Internet, what he calls the new "Fifth Estate", is shining a new, scrutinous light on mainstream media, orwhat he calls the "Fourth Estate." He gives examples of how YouTube and blogs are holding journalists up to a higher level of accountability. Bass believes this new level of scrutiny willmakejournalism better for years to come.
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