NIT are changing journalism.

The early 21 century has proved perhaps the most significant period of change for journalists. The emergence of new information technologies has resulted in a changing role for journalists. As a result of rapid technological change, journalism as a profession has progressed. With the help of television, radio and the Internet, people are able to get fresh news at one time from the remote areas of the world. The cable viewers in Almaty today are able to see what happened in Washington, D.C., or Tokyo.
Journalism isn’t defined or devised by any specific rules. But there are different styles of journalism and different medium. In my opinion, blogging cannot be legitimately called journalism, as it mostly consists from opinion articles. The importance of the blogging is not necessarily whether it is journalism or not, but the effect how is it in journalism and how its effect on public and political opinion. As I know many international cooperations will monitor blogs see what people are saying about them.

“A friend of mine who works for the world economic summit was a subject of very serious blogging campaign,” said S4C journalist Tim Hartley, “after he had published his critical article on the Internet within an hour that story has gun through web-sites and blogs around the world. So he answered back a thousands of e-mails, because people had blog each other saying complain about this article”.

So the power of the blog is complain. Blogs are made journalism wealthier and richer.

“The other issue with the blogs is that many many politicians are now having blogs themselves. And this is a great source to know what their views on the whole host of issues”.

However asking people opinion, 60 blogs for and 40 blogs against, it is does not mean the public opinion it is simply mean the number of blogs. Moreover, in many countries not everybody has an access to the Internet.
Will blogs overtake journalism? No. I’ve already answer and left my comments to Anvar.
I do not think blogs will overtake journalism. Many journalists have blogs, journalists are paid by the company to have a blog, to write their thoughts, opinion and their will updated three or four times a day. The blogs and comments are addition to journalism.

“It is rather like saying will the paper of the international newspaper overtake the journalism. But the last pages are very interesting and very important, but we still have the newspaper and we still have articles written”.

Maybe the certain blogs are so interesting but people prefer to look at BBC and trust to National Business magazine.
Blogger sphere has made everybody journalist and publisher what we’ve seen is the declining in a sales of a traditional newspapers. However, if the number of people who are reading newspapers decreasing there is no end for them. Some people just like to feel newspapers.
There are only five media in which I could be trust; the person himself defines which four or five media to trust.

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* The quotes were taken from personal inverview with Tim Hartley on October 21, 2006