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I think the blog post should rather be named "How to tell journalism from blogging". Simply because you can be a journalist without devoting yourself to journal
by Emore 16y ago
I think the blog post should rather be named "How to tell journalism from blogging". Simply because you can be a journalist without devoting yourself to journalism (just like you can be a programmer without really doing any good programming).
As one that grew up knowing one of Sweden's most prominent journalists I can vouch for some extremely impressive skills that are needed in order to be a good journalist. It's very much about the amount of schooling and _continuous_ preparation you put into a column: a blogger may become successful merely venting his/her thoughts while a "true" journalist reads a book per hundred written words.
- brianpan 16y agoI agree that might be a better title. I thought it was interesting that she obviously considers herself a journalist but in that article, she was "ranting" with her blogger hat on. You have to say she is a journalist and a blogger. But you can also make the distinction between when she is practicing journalism and when she is blogging. As she says, without an "op-ed" section, it is sometimes difficult to tell which is which!