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[...] there can be a crossover from journalism to hybrid citizen journalism, this is a workshop I ran for 80 freelance journalists in [...]

Keith,
Sorry if I misinterpreted your contributions (and Helen’s contributions, while I’m there )

In both cases, there appeared to be rather shrill defense of ‘Professional Journalism’. And some of the language used in defense of ‘the blogger’was a bit rude, as well. We can’t debate these issues if we send one side or the other away by being rude.

You said “i don’t care if you know my work or not.”.

You should …. If I don’t know (therefore can’t trust, because I have no background) your work, why would I read (online or offline) anything you wrote ? If enough people fall into that category, then either you or the paper fail.

Of course, I may be a demographic you (or your editor) don’t care about, but its the eyeballs that pay the $1.30 for the SMH each day, or read it online, that you DO need to care about.

If you ever need an(other) example of an ‘old media’ person who’s doing great stuff with new media, you might want to follow Jim Long / @newmediajim on twitter:

https://twitter.com/newmediajim

He’s an NBC camera man who follows the president around for a living; as he says “the coolest job in the world”. Turns out, knowing what the most powerful man in the world is doing each day makes a great twitter feed

Met him at SxSW and he’s also a genuinely great guy, which definitely helps on the ‘authenticity’ part — which I think is still the main thing that differentiates great new media people from many old media people.

As someone smarter than me said, “bloggers write about the things they’re interested in, journalists write about the things other people are interested in”. When you read the best new media content, that’s really the only difference that stands out: passion.

So maybe we should say, “jaded journos who look down on the general public will be out of a job; the rest will move to reporting about things they’re passionate about, in whatever medium is best to tell the story”

But it’s probably harder to make that into a headline

*laughs* classic post trail that shifted for from the trad-media equivalent of ABC Four Corners to Late Night Talkback on radio. Gets the blood pumping, doesnt it?

@dear brave Anonymous:

A man is known by the blogs he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives. . . .” Ralph Waldo Emerson 1830. More or less.

Welcome to this blog. Make yourself at home.

let me say that all these pro-blogging mob are just so way up themselves. But to mention, intellectually anaemic, incoherent and just plain silly.