This blog gives us the run down on the site journalism.co.uk as well as on blogs. Mariosa sums the site up with, “It looks out for the needs of the journalist” giving the usual news feeds to the essential job opportunites and room for freelancers to advertise.
Mariosa tells us how this site keeps us up to date in the world of digital media, noting all from the latest fads, like Twitter, to the best blogs. It gives us a positive look on blogs, something seen as a “threat to the profession” by some and that some journalists have been plain wary of.
I like her link to the Guardian’s article “To the average Joe, blogs aren’t cutting it” where it confirms that while blogs are expanding rather rapidly, they are still a minority sport and compared to other online phenomena such as You Tube videos and social networking sites blogs have not developed along the same lines.
Mariosa goes on to question the credibility of blogs and perhaps this is why they aren’t as popular. People perhaps see them as more informal and may therefore trust the news articles more. However, with more and more blogs popping up every day, and more journalists experimenting with them, perhaps they will soon reach the same levels of success as the social networks etc. Their credibility will be a deciding factor in this success though.
