Blogging

The article talks about how journalism plays a vital part in the democratic society and things like blogging and podcasting are presenting new ways of information to different people around the world. Baltatzis also talked about how these innovations are important to society because they let the public know about certain things that can improve or disrupt their environment. Lastly, he talked about how publishing with these innovative tools leads us to believe that journalism is growing. Journalism is basically transitioning from traditional media to new media and we can see this in the things reporters are writing stories on the and the news packages they are creating with these new innovative tools.

Baltatzis says that journalism is vital in a democratic society.  Journalism is all about concepts and ideas and presenting them in an objective manner and this is what a democratic society is all about. Journalism lets people express their ideas and voice their thoughts as well as participate in their community.

Blogging is basically the marketplace for innovative ideas. It engages conversations between readers and societies.

The relevance of blogging for journalism is that it gives journalists a place where they can go and see what other people are talking about. It allows them to find stories in the most uncommon places and see what a particular subject is presenting about an idea. They can take that and turn it into their own story. They can also use blogs to follow up on other stories. If they write a story and it doesn't get published, they can post it on their blog. 

Journalists should blog because it creates a new forum of ideas that they can present to their community. It's much more laid back and it gives people an opportunity to comment on their blogs. It presents information in a new way opposed to the traditional media that their publication uses. Baltatzis goes on to say that blogs create communities of interests.

Blogging is innovating journalism because it is creating new ideas and new forms of expression. You can add many things to a blog such as video, commentary, pictures and more. It is more casual than what would be on the front of the newspaper because you can use any style that you want. Anything technology related is innovated and since blogs are used on the internet then I would say that it is turning traditional journalism into new innovative journalism.

Lauren D.