What separates a blogger from a journalist? There are credible and non-credible bloggers, as well as credible and non-credible "journalists. There are bloggers posting more information than traditional journalists, and who are TRULY independent.
"The question of blogger vs. journalist has been the stuff of legends now. It has been discussed from as early as 2005, as far as I remember, and many blog posts have been written on it already."
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The most commonly cited reasons given to call someone a blogger (or a journalist) usually include the rigor in reporting/research (more rigor is assumed to be from a journalist), interactivity with audiences/readers (usually siding bloggers), the fact that someone has an opinion (works for both), the motivation to write about something and so on. I have briefly touched on this topic too, back in 2009 – Blogger engagement? What is a blog, but?
Other relevant resources to get a complete laundry list of criteria to tell the difference include,
While all those are valid, in some way or other, I believe we have at least gone past the print/TV vs online media reasons to call someone either a blogger or a journalist. There are many journalists who report/write online and many bloggers have started to write print columns too. So, since those lines have greyed, let me offer an updated, single-point criteria to know the difference between a blogger and a journalist, no matter where they write and if their publication (online or offline) has the word ‘blog’ in its name."
"So, you could be a journalist in the New York Times and have the power to directly upload content in NYT’s online website…like how bloggers do; in fact your column on NYT could also be called a ‘blog’. But do you own the platform? If not, you are a journalist. In essence, it means you are an ‘ist’ in a journal…a journal owned by someone else, to put it coarsely. You merely write for them, using their platform.
A blogger, on the other hand, owns the platform in which he/she writes.
By that logic, if you are a contributing author in TechCrunch (a blog, by most standards), you would still be a journalist, simply because you do not own the platform you are writing for. Michael Arrington, before the sale of TechCrunch to AOL, was a blogger. Now, in my opinion, he is a journalist."
Blogger Vs. Journalist Research Links
"Blogging is not a regulated industry because (for the most part) we don’t get paid. 99.9% of bloggers, even if they do get occasionally paid, aren't making a living at blogging. It's a hobby. A labor of love."
"Chris Bowers says blog posts are alive in ways that posts in other mediums simply are not, becasue hey are online discussions. The only reason you should be mad at a blogger for posting inaccurate information is if that person refuses to correct the story once they are presented facts to the contrary, or if that person did not even try to figure out the facts before publication. The only reason you should be mad at a blogger for not seeking a response from the subject of a post before publication is if that blogger refuses to listen to any comments or responses after the post has already been made. Personally, I love a healthy debate."
"The lines between journalism and blogging seem to not be black and white but shades of gray. I view blogging as an online conversation. Thoughtful but more casual. My stories might be one-sided at times, but that's because I am giving you my opinion on a subject.
I am not bound by journalistic ethics to be unbiased and just present the facts. And in my mind, that's the biggest difference between being a blogger and a "real journalist". And if you don't want my opinion, don't read my blog. I feel like I make an effort to be thoughtful and have an educated opinion.
I am a Google Ninja Master at scouring the internet for news, tweets, posts and comments to uncover bits of hidden gems. I'm not just receiving one person's text or email about something and heading off to the races, mindlessly blogging away. But, I don't wait for permission from the subject to give you my opinion on a bit of gossip either. Who do you trust? A tweet from a person who actually saw something happen or an official statement from a Publicist who's paid to protect that person's ass? I'm just sayin'."
"Bloggers vs. Journalists is Over"
"Bloggers vs. journalists is over. I don’t think anyone will mourn its passing. There were plenty who hated the debate in the first place, and openly ridiculed its pretensions and terms. But events are what did the thing in at the end. In the final weeks of its run, we were getting bulletins from journalists like this one from John Schwartz of the New York Times, Dec. 28: “For vivid reporting from the enormous zone of tsunami disaster, it was hard to beat the blogs.”
Full Article from 2005
The Debate may be over, settled long ago, however the laws, the judges and main stream media sure are not up to date on this long ago settled matter ~ Crystal L. Cox
"Distinction Between Bloggers, Journalists Blurring More Than Ever"
"The time-worn debate of Bloggers vs. Journalists has finally run its course. For years, traditional journalists scoffed at bloggers as pajama-wearing screamers, while bloggers have pointed to MSM (mainstream media) as secretly biased and obsolete. While the extremists in this argument have had the stage shouting at each other loudly (and it continues to this day), what has happened quietly in the background has received less attention: Mainstream media reporters have started blogging in droves, while larger blog operations have hired seasoned reporters and focused on doing traditional journalism.
How indistinguishable are large independent blogs and traditional media sites? Take the following quiz:
1. Who won a recent Polk Award for investigative journalism, a blogger or MSM reporter?
2. Which big New York-based website has four editors and four reporters, and is looking to hire two more reporters -- a blog or traditional media outlet?
3. Which site hired a young blogger fresh out of college? Blog or MSM site?
4. Which site in Silicon Valley edits 80% of stories before being published online? Blog or MSM site?"
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"I wrote my essay, Bloggers vs. Journalists is Over, in 2005. And it should be over. After all, lots of journalists happily blog, lots of bloggers journalize and everyone is trying to figure out what’s sustainable online. But there’s something else going on, and I think I’ve figured out a piece of it: these two Internet types, amateur bloggers and pro journalists, are actually each other’s ideal “other.” A big reason they keep struggling with each other lies at the level of psychology, not in the particulars of the disputes and flare-ups that we continue to see online.
The relationship is essentially neurotic, on both sides. Bloggers can’t let go of Big Daddy media— the towering figure of the MSM — and still be bloggers. Pro journalists, meanwhile, project fears about the Internet and loss of authority onto the figure of the pajama-wearing blogger. This is a construction of their own and a key part of a whole architecture of denial that has weakened in recent years, but far too slowly. The only way we can finally kill this meme–bloggers vs. journalists–and proceed into a brighter and pro-am future for interactive journalism is to go right at the psychological element in it: the denial, the projection, the neuroses, the narcissism, the grandiosity, the rage, the fears of annihilation: the monsters of the id in the newsroom, and the fantasy of toppling the MSM in the blogosphere."
"Apr 17, 2012 - 8:36AM PT
So can we stop talking about bloggers vs. journalists now?"
NOPE, not time to quit talking about it Just Yet. We are Waiting for the Obsidian Finance Group V. Crystal Cox Case. First We wait and See if the "Appeal" is STOLEN as an Asset. Then we wait for the Decision, and then.. well we are Closer to "stop talking" "about bloggers vs. journalists now" ~ Crystal L. Cox
"Blogging vs. Journalism: The Ongoing Debate"
"SXSW 2011: Jay Rosen on bloggers v journalists"
"Six years ago Jay Rosen wrote an essay arguing that it was time to abandon the sterile opposition between blogging and traditional journalism. On Saturday at SXSW he was still trying to convince us. "It's one internet. The news system now incorporates the people formerly known as the audience.""
"A federal judge in Oregon ruled that Crystal Cox, a blogger who was sued for defamation after she accused the founder of an investment group of acting illegally and unethically, cannot claim protections afforded to journalists under state shield laws. In his ruling, the judge noted that Ms. Cox was not affiliated with a “newspaper, magazine, periodical, book, pamphlet, news service, wire service, news or feature syndicate, broadcast station or network, or cable television system.”"
Blog Post by Investigative Blogger Crystal L. Cox who is currently at the forefront of the "Distinction Between Bloggers and Journalists" Debate as it is seen in the courts of the U.S. and as affects the entire World. Investigative Blogger Crystal L. Cox is in the middle of a Legal Storm that will forever change how Bloggers are treated within the courts as it pertains to "Reporters Privilege", Equal Protection for Bloggers and Journalist, Shield Laws, Retraction Laws, the First Amendment, Qualified Privilege and More.
The Obsidian Finance Group vs. Crystal Cox Blogger case
FULL On Faces Big Media Privilege
and Stands in the Face of the
MONOPOLY that Big Media has on FREE SPEECH.
Investigative Blogger Crystal L. Cox has been harassed, threatened, lost her home, lost her life as she knew it and is continually pressured, threatened, defamed and attacked in attempt to STOP her Ninth Circuit Appeal.
Investigative Blogger Crystal L. Cox refuses to be intimidated, co-hearsed, bought off and continues to remain dedicated to Standing up to BIG Media's Monopoly on Free Speech. Even in the face of the Current Issue of
David S. Aman and
Steven Wilker of
Tonkon Torp Law Firm Portland Oregon Seizing
the "Assets" of Investigative Blogger Crystal L. Cox and the Asset they are Seizing in a Sheriff's Sale is Crystal L. Cox's "Right to Appeal", this 8 months after the Appeal Was Filed, and after two rounds of Appeal Briefs have been filed. And the PURPOSE is to steal the Verdict, and to Control the outcome for Big Media and the Co-Conspirators of David S. Aman, and
Steven Wilker of
Tonkon Torp Law Firm Portland Oregon.
David S. Aman,
Steven Wilker,
Tonkon Torp Law Firm Portland Oregon, Kevin D. Padrick, Obsidian Finance Group, David Carr of the New York Times, Kashmir Hill of Forbes, Jordan Rushie of Philly Law Blog, Kenneth P. White of Brown, White and Newhouse and their Co-Conspirators have recently been named in a massive legal action based out of the Nevada Courts and will soon be named in RICO Lawsuits, RICO Complaints, Criminal Complaints, Attorney General Complaints, FBI Complaints in more. Their Goal? To Silence
Investigative Blogger Crystal L. Cox, in conspiracy, in Order to protect
Big Media's Stronghold on Free Speech and to
Suppress the iViewit Technology Story in which Investigative Blogger Crystal L. Cox has written about for years, and in which the Co-Conspirators Clients stand to lose Billions a year, if not a month.
Investigative Blogger Crystal L. Cox, Truly Independent Blogger, Independent Media Says that Bloggers who run multiple blog sites, take in tips, dig deep into research, read documents, study videos, and truly report on a subject, along with adding their own style, flare if you will, and their opinion, certainly are Media and are most definitely a "Medium to the Public", certainly is news worthy and these bloggers should have the same Equal Protection under the Law as traditional media, big media.
Investigative Blogger Crystal L. Cox SAYS Real Investigative Journalism has no way to TRULY be Impartial, for the REAL Facts, lead to a real TRUTH, and thus a Real Opinion or Decision is bound to be made in the mind of the Real Investigative Journalist based on this deep research, and fact finding.
Distinction Between Bloggers, Journalists
What is a Qualified Privilege and Who Qualifies? What is Reporter Privilege and why should you care? Why is Obsidian V. Cox important to Every Citizen in America, in the World? Here are the Opening Briefs of the Obsidian Finance Group V. Crystal L. Cox Appeal, take a look at the Issue that Affect YOU ALL.
Obsidian Finance Group V. Crystal Cox affects you all.
Obsidian Finance Group V. Crystal Cox is about the Free Speech, First Amendment Rights of all citizens, all bloggers, all new media, all citizen journalists and those who are out their investigating stories and bringing those stories into every corner of the world Via Blog.
Obsidian Finance Group V. Crystal Cox is not about EXTORTION. Obsidian Finance Group V. Crystal Cox is not a Criminal Trial, nor was it ever a matter of extortion as a material fact of Obsidian Finance Group V. Crystal Cox.
Obsidian Finance Group V. Crystal Cox is about ENDING the Monopoly of Free Speech that Big Media has. And Obsidian Finance Group V. Crystal Cox is about ensuring that bloggers, such as me, who investigate a story for years, interview dozens of sources, take years of tips, read thousands of pages and documents, watch and read depositions, listen to court audios, watch insider meetings, get information from courts and multiple sources and report on that story, are protected under the law equality, just as a New York Times Journalist Such as David Carr or a Forbes Journalist such as Kashmir Hill, or an NPR Reporter such as Bob Garfield, or an Oregonian Journalist such as Jeff Manning.
The Obsidian Finance Group V. Crystal Cox Ninth Circuit Appeal, run by Constitutional Rights Hero Eugene Volokh is about protecting your right to blow the whistle via blog, to have your own free press in the palm of your hands, to be an industry insider and share your story and have other bloggers pick it up and BE HEARD without the permission of ad based big media. And in that to have Equal Protection under the Law as any "Reporter" or "Journalist" associated with what is traditionally known as "mainstream" media, or "big media". This case will clear the way for you to report things as you see them, as you witness them, as the stories find you or you find them.
The Obsidian Finance Group V. Crystal Cox Ninth Circuit Appeal is poised to set a precedence that never existed before. A court precedence that once and for all defines what Media is and who has "Journalistic Privilege" and how that relates to the First Amendment and to the U.S. Courts. The Obsidian Finance Group V. Crystal Cox Case will lead to stronger retraction laws state to state and to a Federal Shield Law.
In 2012 and really for a decade, the INTERNET has been Mainstream Media and it is far past time that the courts catch up to this obvious FACT. Obsidian Finance Group V. Crystal Cox will catch the courts up once and for ALL.
Obsidian Finance Group V. Crystal Cox is not about your un-investigated "Opinion" of the Summit 1031 Bankruptcy, nor is its about your "Opinion" of Bankruptcy Whistle Blower Stephanie DeYoung nor her father Summit Principal Mark Neuman.
Obsidian Finance Group V. Crystal Cox is not about your un-investigated "Opinion" of Blogger Crystal Cox, in FACT Crystal Cox is irrelevant to the story, to the precedence and to this game changing legal matter.
Obsidian Finance Group V. Crystal Cox is not about your un-investigated "Opinion" or accusation that Crystal Cox is a Criminal, that should be left up to another court, another investigation and is simply not a matter on the table or a fact in the case what so ever. Extortion is a smoke screen, Investigative Blogger Crystal L. Cox was never charged with Extortion, never investigated for Extortion, was never on Trial for Extortion and NEVER committed Extortion.
Dig Deep Folks and Pay Attention to the Real Issue of The Obsidian Finance Group V. Crystal Cox Ninth Circuit Appeal. The Real Issue is YOUR Right to Free Speech as a Citizen and NOT as a "Big Media" paid Journalist or Reporter. And the Real Issue is to End the Monopoly of Free Speech that Big Media has over your Tax Funded Court System.
Crystal L. Cox
Investigative Blogger
SavvyBroker@Yahoo.com
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