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I think it really depends who you're asking because i've seen some bloggers that can provide in-depth content as it relates to the topic. Actually, some Journalists are bloggers. A friend of mine in presently living in the States as an intern for her Journalist career. She also blogs quite often. I think blogging is a good place to start if deciding to enter a career as a Journalist. Local search is a hot topic and many companies are positioning for the future growth. AOL snatched up Patch and some little companies that point local could be heading in the same path.

I edit and write for a historical type niche blog and I find that the popularity of bloggers is on the rise primarily because of the interactive nature of blogs. Any newspaper worth its salt has to have a blogger on staff and keep up their "connectedness" with their readers. Blogs tend to have this intimacy edge over newspapers lending them more flexibility. This is perhaps the biggest difference in our world today between bloggers and journalists.

I am not a blogger who could never ever be classified as a journalist as my grammar is poor and my posts are probably amateurish but about 20% of bloggers are unlike me they are absolutely brilliant!!

I have read newspapers since I was 5 years old due to my Father being a newspaper man but they never thrilled me as much blogs do.
Blogs cover all my favourite subjects from politics to veganism and everyday I cannot wait to check in and see if they have been updated.

It can only do well, it improves the wrotten word by all and might even get more people to move from blogs to writing short stories or even a novels.

Bit of a two edged sword. But I think that the two forms of writing and reporting can and should compliment each other. Blogging is much more freelance while journalisim is more of a commitment to write for which ever news mogual is willing to pay you for your work. Both sides of the coin do have guidelines,rules,terms and legal requirements. All in all - It's whatever 'Tickles Your Fancy'.

I think the key difference is that print journalists are accountable before publication (i.e. they have to be able to demonstrate a sound research methodology), whereas bloggers are accountable after posting (i.e. they have to be able to fight their corner against hostile commenters).

These form two very different (but complementary) ways to fight your way towards some kind of truth (or influence).

Of course, the implications of this are (a) that a journalist who does not research properly is not really a journalist, and (b) that a blogger who does not allow comments is not really a blogger.

And I think we've seen enough of both of these. :-(

I actually have a degree in journalism that has been absolutely of no use to me. For two years I have been begging newspaper and television reporters for their help in airing a crime. I have been turned away from every news outlet I have contacted. I have been at the mercy of journalists and reporters throughout this ordeal. Newspapers and television journalist and reporters pick and choose the stories that get reported and are notorious for excluding stories which they feel make them liable in any manner for reporting the story.

I desperately needed help in getting this story out to the general public, in an attempt to get these individuals prosecuted. I was repeatedly told that the story could not go public via any media outlet prior to legal documents being filed in a court of law. I begged and pleaded and those out cries for help always landed on deaf ears. Threats against my life were made repeatedly, and requests for police protection were refused repeatedly.

I created my site in Feb. of 2009. Since posting the story and all of the overwhelming evidence to my site, things have begun to look up. My site has been viewed several times by ATF, FBI, US Department of Justice, State of Arizona and Lake Havasu City local and Government officials. An investigation is finally underway after two years for Arson, Terrorist and Criminal Threats, Possession, Possession with Intent To Distribute, and on and on. If I had to rely on the medias help, I would still be at a stand still.

1.What separates a Blogger from a Journalist? A degree and an institution to write for? I do it for free? I don't think we are all that different. Would you seek the truth from someone who gets paid or from someone who does it because they care and felt a story was important? I will say not all bloggers are good enough to be journalists and I don't think all bloggers are trying to be journalists. The bloggers that are good enough will stand apart from the rest and step up to this challenge.

2. Like webpronews.com I have right to put comment here bad or good and next commentator will decide and I don't think so opportunity to commenting article in newspaper where I don't agree at all especially where the source come in? Blogger have a digg.com or link popularity and great feeling when your opinion was digging and blogging by others bloggers in bloggers atmosphere.. Awesome yah!! we not alone.

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I think most folks out there who have been reading blogs and blogging themselves are developing pretty good "filters" as to which of the hyperlocal folks in their area or areas of interest are putting out good quality stuff.

Chuck Welch, of Lakeland Local (Lakeland, FL) is one example. How do I know this? Because I took time to seek him out "off line" and get to know him one on one. This is the key. If you can connect with hyper local bloggers in your area in a live setting - you'll soon find out what they're made of.

I am a good blogger (http://hindivani.blogspot.com ) and journalist too. There is no control on blogging and suppose if I have some personal opnion against Mr Barack Obama, I can write it with confort at my blog. But I file this for my newspaper I have to take responsibilty and accountability of that story. I think this is major fact which reflects that blogger will never take the place of a journalist.
Print journalism will never die. In India every year newspaper readers are increasing.

The difference is the search for fact-based truth. Journalists owe their audience the truth, no matter how they feel about the topic. Bloggers seem to have a more flexible approach to fact-based truth.