Is blogging Innovation Journalism?

In the article, “Is Blogging Innovating Journalism?” by Patrick Baltatzis he expresses five points. They are:
How is quality conceived and achieved in an environment of abundant, transitional and complex information?

What qualities, skills and tools are required to assimilate, Digest?

Then distribute relevance and meaning where attention is more valued than most physical goods?

How does new media technology fit into all this?

How do RSS-feeds and easy web-publishing tools (which have contributed to the growth of the blog) and podcasts contribute to interesting stories, good journalism and the future of publishing?

Baltatzis continues on by stating that Journalism is vital in a democratic society. Without journalism we would not have the broad, abstract concept of democracy. Due to journalism and free press people are enabled to participate with an active voice, which allows for power players for democratic advocacy.

Blogging is an innovative digital newswire found on the Internet. It has low production and distribution cost and allows a forum for anyone to publish his or her ideas. The name Blog comes from the combination of Web and Log.

In the article, Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford and an Internet visionary, argued that people become immune to traditional streamlined and broadcasted messages, blogging presents an opportunity for communities to arise.

Although blogging can be beneficial for journalists the issues of trust and reliability arise. Not everyone who does a blog has journalist qualities and there for how do readers decipher between a journalist blog and a regular blog?

Journalists should consider blogging because that is where their readers are. To make an impact journalist need to have an audience therefore if their readers are blogging then so should they.

“Blog responsibly, and you'll build a reputation for being a trusted news source.
Don't, and you won't have a reputation to worry about," writes John Hiler.

Blogging is a form of innovative journalism, it presents a forum for new trends and events. The information on a blog can be fast and informative for readers. Although blogging is a new way to publish news, the old fashion printed news is still important to keep older readers informed as well.

-Monica Sullivan