What Mainstream Journalists Can Learn From Bloggers
(Poynter.org) Blogging isn't just a Wild-West free-for-all of publishing with no rules or ethical guidelines. Bloggers are making up the rules of their emerging and increasingly powerful medium as they go, and they do indeed have ideas to offer those practicing traditional journalism. Bloggers and journalists do not need be the Red States vs. the Blue States -- though in some quarters both sides have acted that way lately. We're heading into a period, I hope, where each group takes tips from the other to enhance their own craft. Bloggers and mainstream journalists likely won't end up as twins, but perhaps cordial cousins. → Full Story