There seems to be more and more evidence that the online world is eating into the print world. Tim O’Reilly reported that the San Francisco Chronicle is under danger. Rafat Ali reported that InfoWorld is folding its print operations, and will focus on the online version more. [Continue]
Pulitzer, the elite award, has opened up to admit blogs (via Bloggers Blog). Initially I was thrilled, but as you can see, most of the language is directed towards newspapers and considered in the local journalism context. Scoble says that bloggers will be called journalists as more and more professionals start blogging. [Continue]
Another of those mainstream articles (via India Uncut) in The Times Of India by Shobhan Saxena dismissing the bloggers. Not deviating from the usual complaints the article bashes bloggers because there are too many of us doing too many of personal opinions. For some reason, blogging is compared to journalism, probably because sometimes the markets and business models overlap. [Continue]