Isn’t that journalism?

A blogger is not necessarily a journalist. If I got it right, blogging started out as (1) a log of interesting finds on the Web and (2) as a publishing activity in a diary format. I remember that bloggers used to be referred to as diarists for the simple reason that they published mostly personal accounts. It was only lately that “pro” bloggers came out when people started to fashion their blogs in a way that allowed them to earn from the venture or turn the platform as portfolios, i.e., where they post writing samples or write about their professional opinions about certain topics.

Even traditional news organizations separate blogging from news reporting. There are journalists who blog and they do so clearly as bloggers writing in a blogging format and on a blogging platform. You can see the difference when you read closely a news article and a blog entry.

While bloggers may also (and they should) stick to journalism ethics, the outputs of both bloggers and journalists are still entirely different.

It will boil to how you define journalism. If we will depend on the definition on wikipedia, “a discipline of gathering, writing and reporting news…and presenting the news articles,” hardly a blog could be considered a journalism unless you develop your own content and present them as news articles. It will also depend on how you define the word “blog,” whether it is a format of writing your own personal thoughts on a particular topic, or just a CMS for your website.

If Ricky Carandang gives his thought on Neri’s testimony, I won’t treat his entry as journalism. It just so happens that he is a journalist.

@LonelyPinoy, not all writers are journalists

Well, I consider myself as a journalist and a blogger since I have a website that is in blog form but the contents are original.

Nick Joaquin once said that news is “history in a hurry”. As much as blogging is a way of portraying events near or at the moment they happen, blog posts can be considered “news”.

BUT, journalism requires discipline and journalists ideally follow a code of ethics that bloggers are not bound to.

Yes, I consider myself a journalist because i’m into writing. Another term for blog is online journal, right? Therefore, bloggers are journalists.

quoting the mistress of ceremonies during the last Jaime Ongpin Awards: ” Journalism is an edited process.”

For me, bloggers can be considered as journalist because they write.. uhh.. type..

well, journalism in the simplest sense pertains to keeping a journal of sorts. blogging does the same therefore i believe that all bloggers are journalists to a certain extent. do most bloggers follow the rules of journalism and adhere to the same ethical standards, i have no idea.

thus the term… Blogism.

Nah, too much pressure. Look what happened to Ryan Block.