{"id":63,"date":"2012-04-19T11:53:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T15:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annawahrman.com\/wp\/?p=63"},"modified":"2012-04-19T11:53:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T15:53:24","slug":"blogging-and-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/blogging-and-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging and journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2012\/04\/17\/so-can-we-stop-talking-about-bloggers-vs-journalists-now\/\">Smart thoughts from GigaOM<\/a> as the HuffPost wins a Pulitzer and the NYT launches another <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">stand-alone blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The question &#8216;are blogs journalism?&#8217; \u2014 or similar questions such as &#8216;Is Twitter journalism?&#8217; \u2014 make no sense any more, if they ever did. Are telephones journalism? Are pencils and pens journalism? No. They are just tools. A blog is also just a tool, one which can be used for journalism and for many other things as well.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I mostly agree, but that being said, I think there is a big difference between original reporting and aggregation, between thinking and curating. The tools of blogging have made the latter items much easier to do.<\/p>\n<p>One challenge for so-called old media in adapting to the new world order is that the audience still has an expectation from them of quality original reporting, and it&#8217;s difficult if not impossible to fund news analysis, foreign bureaus, unions, reporters on assignment, long-form journalism, spotless editing (etc.) and still make payroll, while your upstart competitors do not bear the burden but often do reap the rewards of these expenditures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart thoughts from GigaOM as the HuffPost wins a Pulitzer and the NYT launches another stand-alone blog: &#8220;The question &#8216;are blogs journalism?&#8217; \u2014 or similar questions such as &#8216;Is Twitter journalism?&#8217; \u2014 make no sense any more, if they ever did. Are telephones journalism? Are pencils and pens journalism? No. They are just tools. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,17,20,26,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}