The Meaning of Blog

I've finally remembered the reason for this blog-a deeply thoughtful and analytical critique of our lectures on Online Journalism, focussed around the five guest speakers from BBCi, IPC, Telegraph.co.uk, BBC Wales and a representative of 'citizen journalism'.

Despite the clear credentials of the first four, I have a funny feeling it will be the last speaker who could be the most interesting. While BBC online et al will continue to change I think they are relatively established formats now-colours will change, blackberries will be integrated and so on, but the way they gather news and effect journalism probably won't change all that much. But, 'citizen journalism' could be different.

I'm not from the school of thought that thinks that journalists will die out as camera phones allow people to make their own news, and viewers turn to blogs for news - clearly someone will need to present the mass of stuff in consumable chunks. But, the challenge will be for journalists to use the huge mass of new information. There's got to be individual investigations being published on the web and there'll increasingly be home footage of news events available for anyone that asks from them. Sorting the rubbish from the broadcastable will be the challenge. Anyway, I'm sure our guest speaker will have something to say about this.