Friday, 8 March 2013

“When does a blogger become a journalist?”

Journalist are people who actually go out into the world and experience issues face to face. They report on actual facts that they have gathered, therefore the facts are from a primary source and share with readers who are not able to be in the front line of these stories. Journalist aim to show every angle of a story, where as bloggers mainly post about their own opinion; which is not a bad thing at all.

In my opinion, a blogger that post serious, unbiased stories and have correct information and sources is a journalist.  I have my own Tumblr blog http://blackfluorescentink.tumblr.com/ and I mainly post about music, fashion and poetry. I would never title myself a journalist, I'm not experience enough and most of my facts are from other bloggers, websites or even from twitter. In my case I  would consider myself a blogger.

 However, in the media industry a blogger would become a journalist when they have actually gained a degree in journalism and is employed by a media outlet.

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