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The journalist-versus-blogger debate has been coined an objectivity debate, but JP Rangaswami has another interesting take on it. The post is well-worth reading in full, but here's my favourite quote: "The journalist-versus-blogger debates are all about trust. Trust used to be something that bound small groups together.
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Are bloggers journalists? The debate rages on despite how recent research has showed that the majority of bloggers focus on relating their personal experiences to a limited audience. As a trained journalist who blogs, I must admit I don't see my blogging as journalism. Blogging is just for
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Millionaire author Jeffrey Archer has a blog! The disgraced UK Conservative politcian, who served time for prejury and obstructing the course of justice during his 1987 libel trial with the Daily Star, blogs about art, cricket, writing books and other things here. I was gobsmacked to read the news via
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I wrote a while back about how much I enjoyed The Guardian's blog coverage of this years' NUJ conference and how reading it almost made me feel as if I was there. The Washington Post's Frank Ahren has an interesting article about covering the Enron
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Even in Europe, big corporations and marketing departments are starting to understand the imperative of getting on board the blog bandwagon, and some have even picked up a few things about how it works. Only seven years after The Cluetrain Manifesto, this article from The Financial Times awards us with
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I've breezed through quite a few commentary pieces on UK deputy prime minister John Prescott's demise in Norwegian press recently, but those I've read all miss one of the big points of what brought it about: the relentless onslaught of bloggers such as Guido
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Puh! Long title, but that's what GCI group, a division of Grey Worldwide, says it's doing for Dell. Read Jeff Jarvis hilarious account of exactly how. Dell, or their marketing consultants, are obviously starting to wake up to how markets are not only conversations, but, facilitated
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Reuters hook up with bloggers I was intrigued to read that Reuters, who was accused of bending over backwards to be objective when its global head of news instructed Reuters staff not to use the word terrorist to describe those responsible of 9/11, is the latest media network to
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The big question on a lot of media folks' minds these days is how blogging will change peoples media habits, and ultimately effect the way media need to do business in order to stay profitable. UK Channel 4 presenter Jon Snow recently told The Guardian's Changing Media
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I was intrigued to learn via Mediabistro that serial blog entrepreneur Elisabeth Spiers, founding editor of Manhatten media news and gossip blog Gawker, latest venture is an online business tabloid and Wall Street gossip blog. Since I'm a bit of a media junkie I've quite enjoyed
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As a side note to the discussion of bloggers acting as journalists: Gawker, the New York celebrity gossip blog, has put its Gawker Stalker feature, also hailed as a pioneering example of citizen journalism, into map form. It works on the formula that zealous readers report sightings of celebrities around
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The Media Guardian says companies have awakened to the potential marketing value the blogosphere can add to their PR-strategy: How big business barged in on the bloggers. My friend and blog prophet Adriana has been telling me for years and years that this invetably would happen, so I guess this