The panel for this session will deal with the topic of journalists vs. bloggers. Yeow Siew Hoon (The Transit Cafe) the moderator starts the session by asking the question: Why do you blog? Bakker: I started blogging to connect with my family when I moved from the Netherlands to Canada. Later on it evolved into a platform to write about the tourism industry and what was going on in my work with Tourism British Columbia Joe Buhler: Three words - I have opinions
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Do you think there's a difference between a journalist and a blogger? Joe Buhler - yes definitely - Joe mentions that he is not a journalist but he has opinions that he likes to express and thus he's a blogger. do you agree that "anyone can be a blogger but not everyone can be a journalist?" Bakker - yes there is a difference. Journalists are trained professionals (bloggers may or may not be) There seems to be a consensus that the main difference between journalists and bloggers is the freedom to write (or post). Bloggers feel free to write about whatever they want without fear of editorial restrictions or politics (or business) considerations.
Should the consumer trust a journalist more or a blogger more? For certain topics bloggers are experts in the area they are writing about and if the reader knows this then the blogger will have more trust than a journalist writing a one - time article on the subject.
from Berlin,
Jaime
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