In today’s present scenario, there is already a thin line that separates journalism and blogging thus making it more confusing to the public on which area they are really into – blogging or journalism.
A journalistic work can be a blogger's work but seldom does it happen that a blogger's work can be considered as a journalistic work.
What Separates Journalism from Blogging?
Journalism is based on facts and blogs are usually based on the writer’s feel-free ideas since blogs serve as a medium being an online journal where bloggers can post about any topic they are interested in, unlike journalism. In journalism, being FACTUAL is the main ingredient. When the post is purely a product of the imaginative mind of the reader, then it can never be considered as a journalistic work.
Journalism is both a passion and a profession and courses in journalism are being offered for one to be that ‘professional’ in the field. On the other hand, blogging can merely be a product of ones interest to write about something and anything they are interested in. May it be factual or not, the bottom line is Journalism is into facts, blogging is more into personal opinion and idea being shared.
BLOGGERS vs JOURNALISTS
All journalists can be bloggers but not all bloggers can be journalists.
Like what was mentioned earlier, there is a very thin line that separates bloggers from journalists but this line is still visible if only we will have that deeper understanding on the difference of the two.
Just to some up, what mainly separates bloggers from journalists is that, bloggers work on their online journals through their blogs giving their opinion and insights about something while journalists are mainly into ‘news’ which are factual as they give the public the necessary information they need.
