Monday, January 28, 2008

Journalists Use of Blogs

Although our class is using a blog as a supplemental learning tool, others use blogs to access news and public opinion.

Brodeur conducted a survey on how journalist use blogs and found that blogs make news easier and quicker to access. Mainly though, blogs help journalist gain a better understanding of a story and their audience's opinion on the story topics.

This press release and article bring up the question of whether the quality of news stories are affected by blogs. Do journalist take blogs too far by not using more reliable and accountable resources?

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