Journalist’s Trade

RELATED WEB LINKSDan Gillmor– dangillmor.comDave Barry– blogs.herald.comToday in the Sky– blogs.usatoday.com/sky/Clergy Abuse Tracker– www.bishop-accountability.org Weblogging PioneerThe pioneer among blogging columnists is Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News. He…

He wonders whether there is ‘a place for Weblogs in the Fourth Estate firmament.’

‘Weblogs will not save journalism as we know it. However, they might end up improving journalism as we know it.’

‘Weblogs offer journalists tangible ways to achieve that Number One feeling.’

‘… the vast majority of Weblogs do not provide original reporting— for me, the heart of all journalism.’

At a time when access to the high-speed Internet is getting easier and do-it-yourself publishing software abounds, Weblogs are cyberspace’s quick-moving, multilinked, interactive venues of choice for millions of people…

A blogger and journalist finds no easy answer, but he discovers connections.

‘If contemporary American journalism is a lecture, what it is evolving into is something that incorporates a conversation and seminar.’

Web writing is a protected right, but more limits exist outside the United States.

A blogger predicts that Weblogs might push Big Media back to better news reporting.