Where is the fine line between a blogger-nerd-teenager with spots spending most of his time writing on his blog and a journalist who publishes his articles online?
Newspapers have had to evolve in order to remain up to date. Writing about current topics quickly became unsufficient to be trendy.
Newspapers look old, they're history even for their own writers, we get our fingers all black and spending money on a subscription is less and less a priority.
And then came blogs.
Blogs are easy to access, attractive and anyone can have one. It is free, we can read hundreds of articles a dayy without having a pile of newspapers sitting next to our bed.
The problem is the content.
As everyone is free to post anything, it becomes harder to to tell fact from fiction. We have all read doubtful stories and have yet thought it could be true.
Can internet kill the press? Has it? Will it?
Journalists have had to evolve to still be read. A lot of jobs were lost, people fired and less papers have been printed. Newspapers created their own websites, with news online, videos for some, pictures most of the time. But the problem of cost remained for some. Indeed, when a blog is free to access, a newspapers' website can ask its readers to pay to access its content.
The profession of journalist became less estimated as everyone got the idea that, they could do it too.
So, what do you think of journalism grad school in this context?
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