DISQUS

Kristine · 2 years ago

You know, I think journalists who ignore the blogsophere are loosing out big time. I can't even count all the ways blogging & knowing my way around the blogosphere have benefited me as a journalist.

During a very brief stint as an undergraduate student at Sussex university, long time ago, the dean of the school told me something like, "it's like your are driving a Ferrari compared to the other students, because you have the ability to think for yourself." Now, I found this really strange, because the dean didn't expect his students to be able to think independently until the second year, but being a blogging journalist, is almost like "driving a Ferrari" compared to the other journalists, at least in my part of the world.

Having said that, it took a while from I started blogging to when I started listening. In the beginning, I was much too preoccupied with my own writing, getting the tone right and all of that, since it's a big shift to go from the very structured writing you do as a journalist to blogging. It's a process that doesn't happen over night. In fact, I think blogging is very much a process, constantly evolving, more than any thing else... Hmm, may blog more about this when time allows...

Adam Tinworth · 2 years ago

I've said in the past that I sometimes think that it's harder to turn a journalist into a good blogger than it is to turn a random member of the public.

While the journalist may have the writing skills, they often have more to unlearn (or at least let go of) than they have to learn...