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Dana Blankenhorn: "To say a blog is journalism is like saying web pages are journalism." ...

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"Journalism can happen on Web pages, and on blogs, in lots of places. Not everything that's printed is journalism. Not everything that's broadcast is journalism. Yet we have print and broadcast journalism. It's the same with blogging software.

What a blog is depends on the precise software being used, the person running the site, and what features they turn on. Look here -- no organized comments, barely a blogroll. Of course it's still a blog. Since it's done by a journalist, who is doing journalism on the page, it's both a blog and journalism. If the same person only put here pictures of their cat, or fictional stories they had written, it would still be a blog, only not journalism."

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Is Blogging Journalism? Posted by Dana Blankenhorn

Steve Rubel is a PR strategist with nearly 16 years of public relations, marketing, journalism and communications experience. He currently serves as a Senior Vice President with Edelman, the largest independent global PR firm.He authors the Micro Persuasion weblog, which tracks how blogs and participatory journalism are changing the public relations practice.