<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> From the perspective of journalism, weblogs can be seen as a new category of news and current affairs communication. Although most weblogs do not even pretend to be journalistic or related to current events in the sense shared by institutional media, when bloggers approach the arena of journalism, some of their working principles can challenge traditional professional standards: Conversation with the audience, transparency in the reporting process or even participatory news production are common in blogging. By challenging the conventional understanding of what journalism is, weblogs have revitalized the voices that expect a paradigm shift in journalism in the Internet era. In order to contribute to the debate on the influences of weblogs on journalism and make it more systematic, we propose a typology of journalistic weblogs, along a continuum ranging from the least to the most institutionalized in terms of their relationship to the established media: At one end, we find weblogs produced by the public outside media companies, and at the other end, we find those that are part of media content and produced by professional staff journalists. We argue that weblogs are a symbol of the ongoing change in the relationship between citizens, media and journalists - a change that questions the basic assumptions of the traditional roles of institutional journalism.</p></abstract>

From the perspective of journalism, weblogs can be seen as a new category of news and current affairs communication. Although most weblogs do not even pretend to be journalistic or related to current events in the sense shared by institutional media, when bloggers approach the arena of journalism, some of their working principles can challenge traditional professional standards: Conversation with the audience, transparency in the reporting process or even participatory news production are common in blogging. By challenging the conventional understanding of what journalism is, weblogs have revitalized the voices that expect a paradigm shift in journalism in the Internet era. In order to contribute to the debate on the influences of weblogs on journalism and make it more systematic, we propose a typology of journalistic weblogs, along a continuum ranging from the least to the most institutionalized in terms of their relationship to the established media: At one end, we find weblogs produced by the public outside media companies, and at the other end, we find those that are part of media content and produced by professional staff journalists. We argue that weblogs are a symbol of the ongoing change in the relationship between citizens, media and journalists - a change that questions the basic assumptions of the traditional roles of institutional journalism.

Weblogs and Journalism

Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa, and Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Sant Pau 4, 43003 Tarragona, Catalonia,

D.Soc.Sc., Senior Lecturer, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, FI-33014 University of Tampere,

Nordicom Review

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A Typology to Explore the Blurring Boundaries

From the perspective of journalism, weblogs can be seen as a new category of news and current affairs communication. Although most weblogs do not even pretend...

Weblogs and Journalism

Published Online: Feb 14, 2017

Page range: 3 - 15

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0159

Keywords
weblog, blogger, active audience, citizen journalism, professional journalism

© by David Domingo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Weblogs and Journalism

Published Online: Feb 14, 2017

Page range: 3 - 15

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0159

Keywordsweblog, blogger, active audience, citizen journalism, professional journalism

© by David Domingo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
weblog, blogger, active audience, citizen journalism, professional journalism