Wednesday in Journalism 3410 the students had the pleasure of having guest speaker Bethany Keeley, writer of unnecessaryquotes.com, and listening to a recorded interview with Morgan Josey Glover, blogger for gogreentriad.com, talk about their experience as bloggers and how it differs from conventional media.
Keeley’s blog, unnecessaryquotes.com, is a comedic approach to looking at the misuse of the quotation mark by showing pictures she, and others, find in everyday life. On the other hand, Glover, education reporter for News & Record, writes to inform her readers about ways they can go green. While both write with different purposes, they had the same praises for blogging. Blogging lets the writer manage the content themselves.
Reporting in real time, Glover said, is another perk to blogging. With conventional news stories, reporters may sit on information until the story is finished. Blogging allows the writer to get the story out quicker. Glover also said that journalists need to be comfortable with blogging to give themselves an edge in their field.
Keeley’s blog, unnecessaryquotes.com, is a comedic approach to looking at the misuse of the quotation mark by showing pictures she, and others, find in everyday life. On the other hand, Glover, education reporter for News & Record, writes to inform her readers about ways they can go green. While both write with different purposes, they had the same praises for blogging. Blogging lets the writer manage the content themselves.
Reporting in real time, Glover said, is another perk to blogging. With conventional news stories, reporters may sit on information until the story is finished. Blogging allows the writer to get the story out quicker. Glover also said that journalists need to be comfortable with blogging to give themselves an edge in their field.
One downfall of blogging could be the attention span of the reader. “When I blog it is typically shorter” said Glover. Keeley’s posts to her blog were short as well. This concision is necessary for the online medium. However, that does not mean the blog could not be in depth. Hyperlinks allow a blog to link to other blogs or news stories to give more information to the reader.
1 comment:
John,
Nice use of a picture. The spacing is a little off but that's OK. You pack a lot of information, elements and links into your blog post. This is very well done. This is what a blog post should be.
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