Fatemeh Jamshidian Tehrani - Bloggers And Journalists

Bloggers And Journalists

Name: Fatemeh Jamshidian Tehrani

ID: 1102703422

Email: fatemeh.jt@gmail.com

A lot of people have been trying to figure out the difference between bloggers and journalist. There seems to be a feeling among some that bloggers are less important than journalist. Others feel journalists are behind the times…

Truth be told, the argument comparing bloggers and journalist isn’t even one we should be having. They are extremely different from each other in certain aspects, but extremely similar in others.

However, in the spirit of the argument, I think it prudent that we attempt to define and separate bloggers and journalists…

Defining a Blogger

In its most simple forms, the definition of a blogger must be someone that writes a blog. But that’s not really enough for us to continue. So how can we extrapolate that? We need to identify what a blog is and make some assumptions and generalities. 

A blogger is someone that writes a blog. What’s a blog? It’s an online journal that a writer can use to share his ideas and thoughts. Therefore, a blogger is someone that writes his ideas and thoughts online.

Defining a Journalist

If we began defining a blogger as someone that writes a blog, then we can state that a journalist is someone that writes for a magazine or newspaper. “someone that keeps a journal”. This idea creates a huge overlap between the idea of a blogger and journalist, because of the fact that a blog was defined as a “online personal journal”. 

One part of the definition stuck out to me; the fact that a journalist “aims for a mass audience”. At first I thought that this part of the definition might help make a clear distinction between the two, but it’s not the case.