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Sunday, April 14, 2002
http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/bloggingjournalism.htm Are Bloggers Journalists? On the rise of Amateur Journalism and the need for a Blogging Code of Ethics John Hiler Sometimes a blog is just a blog. But sometimes it's not, and the line between weblogs and journalism begins to blur. Just the other day, I was talking to a "real journalist": a friend of mine who freelances for the Economist and Red Herring. I explained to him what I was doing with Microcontent News, writing articles about weblogs and personal publishing.... As weblogs start to break stories and deliver analysis from industry insiders, they're coming up against many of the same conflicts that Journalists addressed years ago with their famous Code of Ethics. It's a catch-22: if all bloggers followed the Journalism Code of Ethics, their blogs would be objective and edited... but would they still be blogs?...
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