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. 

Minoo Mafi - Bloggers & Journalists

Minoo Mafi - Bloggers & Journalists

Name : Minoo Mafi

Student ID: 1081107689

Email : minoomafi@yahoo.com

As a regard of growing up technology it can be seen the media has not been exceptional and it has recently been changed particularly by bloggers. Obviously blogging is known as an avenue that we are able to exchange our suggestions or news indeed. Therefore it has being anticipated that journalists are coming into bloggers world as fast as ever. Blogger is general name of who is writing on the internet whatever is news or other subjects include of opinion, suggestion, and so on. Nevertheless it has been believed that blogging has been legitimated to journalist world. Although blogger world is comprehensive so that anybody manage to write everything and it can be dangerous for journalist.

Blogging has been able influence to population in order to most people has been accessed to it much more easier as far as ever .Surfing on the internet is to be a daily habit and, perhaps an addiction indeed. Reading a blog is not only much simpler but also funny sometimes and this is a reason of development of journalist in blogging.

Despite of believing that they are different and any journalists are not a blogger but some blogger can be offered remarkable ability on the journalist world and it must be considered about that. Eventually it should be acknowledged that a blogging is a tool for any journalist who is interested in.

To sum up the differences between either of them is not deep and it might look at as a two avenues that are parallel and mutual.

 

Mohsen Ghafari - Blogs and Journalist

Blogs and Journalist

Name: Mohsen Ghafari
student ID: 1091108885
Email: mohsen.ghafari.edu@gmail.com

01- Is there anything left to say?

02- Who is the blogger?

03- Who is the journalist?

04- Can we put both sides in the same side?

Is there anything left to say?

Nowadays, we are force to see and read lots of news from bad to good ones and it’s hard to believe all of them, sometimes none of them. Something is going on! Everyone interprets the news by his own language and situation. And news can have different affection on the audiences or readers. Usually, the bad news is like movies on television in a very funny and sad way. When I hear that Amy Winehouse died because of drug! I don’t really know how should react by hearing this news and it’s very odd and funny. Back to old days, news was very important and could change the people’s life completely. But now, I don’t have any idea at all.

Who is the Blogger?

The blogger is someone who is free whom can write anything about anything. It’s that simple without any limitation. They usually write about any topic. It depends on their interests. Topic is like movie, critic, politic, lifestyle, and sport and so on. They can write anywhere and anytime. They can include their opinion and there is no editor to sensor their articles or posts. When the idea “blog” came everyone was excited because they felt power to write down their own opinion about their thinking and idea. The day, when you don’t have too much connection to others and the internet was so limited, you could just read news and discuss with others with newspapers, group mails, and television. And it wasn’t too satisfaction. But after a while, by coming blog tool in the hand of people to help them express themselves and talk and share their thought with everyone even the people from too far away from them. Isn’t it great? And it goes further and further and now you can make very simple free blog for yourselves and just write down. Sometimes it causes many problems for you and sometimes it makes you famous and money.

Who is the journalist?

Journalist is a very old career for who like to go around and make some news for their newspaper, company or websites. They can write down any news then collect them and send them to editor for print. But the big problem is you are so limited and all the times your news and articles are under the knife of censorship by editor, company and government. You can put any news or opinion on newspaper or radio or television. And if you don’t agree with this censorship you have to find another source to make money for yourself. However, journalism is not as simple and easy as blogging. They interfere with people and accidents. They sometimes must go inside the fire and capture the fire. They lost their life just for their belief and job. Journalism is a very pure job if they reflect the reality. We, as a normal people with normal job, usually don’t have news from other countries or people all around the world. The journalists are the only ones who bring news for us and shine the light for our blind eyes. My favorite job in journalism industry is photo journalism because they don’t talk and they just capture the moment and speak with their photos. And most of them times, the journalist are so defenseless and no one protect them from dangerous moments, war, and accidents.

Can we put both sides in the same side?

The good news is the journalism and blogging are a match couples these days. Usually, journalists have their own blog; another word is who doesn’t have blog? Everyone knows how to make blog and just write any news, opinions and thought. Journalists are really alike and they want to express their every moment of memory and save them somewhere which are belong to them. By this method, they have both side which is their job and opinions. They send their news material to company and write down their article in blog without any censor.

Aldossary Naief Nassar - Journalist vs Blogger

Aldossary Naief Nassar
1092700954
flaminski@gmail.com

Journalist vs Blogger

Yes, there's a difference, both journalist and bloggers are everyday people who are involved in their communities or are a passionate about an issue, they want to inform others who also share their interests, they could be anyone from a mom writing about her kids sporting events, to a volunteer writing about a food banks needs for donation, to a government employee wanted to inform residents about an upcoming program, or to activist seeking to sway reader's opinion on their way.

Here are the differences

Journalists like professional Journalists do a research and conduct interviews, they write their articles in a third person and leave their opinion out of the articles they produce, they submit their stories to newspapers, news websites, community publication and even broadcast outlets.

Bloggers are more freewheeling , many write an ongoing diary that reflects under everyday life, others are more serious, they use their blogs to get their opinion about a particular issue or topic, well they provide some basic facts regarding an issue, they also include commentary. Blogs typically found on a websites maintained by the individual blogger who also welcomes the opinions of others sites.

Journalists role is to inform accurate and unbiased manner, bloggers tends to provide commentary and invite others to express their opinions as well.

Seyed Hadi Seyed Sadjadi - Blogs and Journalist

Name: seyed hadi seyed sajadi
Student ID: 1102702761 
Email: shssadjadi@gmail.com


I believe that a blog can work as a journal to explain information or news.The blogger could be a journalist,too.actually I do not see any difference between journalist and blogger.both of them work as a reporter to report some stuff to some audience.for example in some countries which there is censorship in newspaper and journal,most of the news-writers will use blog to discuss about the news and event that happened.

these days the blog and blogging are the new version of the journalism which it try to pass the filtering and governmental censorship with some feature which is not possible to find in journal.

Blogs are really useful these days because they are easy to share with everyone through the internet and have the copyright of your own.

I personally believe that journalism is getting shabby and the blogging would be a great choice to inform the world by just some clicks and also there will be correction on your topics.

the most important advantages of Blogging for reporter of the yellow press or columnist  is that,they can say everything without any problem because of the rules and regulation of the reporting on journals.

the journal is going to have a responsible/journal owner,so it will be like a company and working in a large amount of personnel which it has the publishing on a paper but the Blog might be in an small group of the people that can connect together online and it might have just an admin as a responsible.

finally the the blog would be really compatible to the environment and non recyclable but when a company publish a thousand of newspaper or journal,in fact they are cutting the trees to provide papers to write and print their knowledge and information on it.so in my opinion I prefer to have a blog instead of a journal publication.

Mostafa Mahmoudi - Bloggers & Journalist

Mostafa Mahmoudi
1081107434
amooshelby@gmail.com

Are bloggers journalists? If you’re a blogger and you engage in journalism in your blog, then you’re a journalist. This is how, at least, it is seen with this bill introduced by Representative Rick Boucher .

The Free Flow of Information Act protects journalists from divulging their sources for news stories except in cases where there is imminent harm to national security, imminent death or significant bodily harm involved, a trade secret of significant value in violation of State or Federal law, individually identifiable health information, and in instances where nondisclosure of the information would be contrary to the public interest.

In defining journalism broadly, the bill states: “The act would apply to web logs (‘blogs’) that engage in journalism.” It also clarifies that journalism refers to the tasks of “gathering, preparing, collecting, photographing, recording, writing, editing, reporting, or publishing of news or information that concerns local, national, or international events or other matters of public interest for dissemination to the public.”