Wall Street Journal and Forbes legitimise bloggers
After the recent bad behaviour of super bloggers Gizmodo at CES, there has been a bit of a debate as to whether bloggers should be classed as members of the press and be allowed into certain trade shows/events using press credentials. Some traditional journalists are of the opinion that anyone can blog and that doesn’t necessarily mean they can be a journalist so why give them press credentials saying as much?
I’m glad to say that among other the Wall Street Journal certainly aren’t of this opinion. A few days ago I blogged about Bill Gates’s video from CES and yesterday the WSJ did their own story on the video and gave me a link at the bottom of their article under “blog posts about this topic.” So it would seem at least that the WSJ recognise the role that bloggers are playing in the distributing of information on the web. I’ve yet to see any UK online newspapers quote blogs, but I could be wrong.
Then yesterday, I and others received an email from Forbes.com asking if we would like to participate in a new business and financial blog network that they are launching this month. So there’s another major huge international media outlet recognising that collectively bloggers have a big enough voice to merit their own ad network. I’ve signed up and will update my progress here once I get some advertisers signed up.
What do you think?
Can bloggers be classed as journalists? Or have Gizmodo ruined it for us all?
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Wall Street Journal and Forbes legitimise bloggers
Original post by Kieron