Wall Street Journal and Forbes legitimise bloggers
After the recent bad behaviour of super bloggers Gizmodo at CES, there has been a bit of a debate as to whether bloggers should be classed as members of the press and be allowed into certain trade shows/events using press credentials. Some traditional journalists are of the opinion that anyone can blog and that doesn’t necessarily mean they can be a journalist so why give them press credentials saying as much?
I’m glad to say that among other the Wall Street Journal certainly aren’t of this opinion. A few days ago I blogged about Bill Gates’s video from CES and yesterday the WSJ did their own story on the video and gave me a link at the bottom of their article under “blog posts about this topic.” So it would seem at least that the WSJ recognise the role that bloggers are playing in the distributing of information on the web. I’ve yet to see any UK online newspapers quote blogs, but I could be wrong.
Then yesterday, I and others received an email from Forbes.com asking if we would like to participate in a new business and financial blog network that they are launching this month. So there’s another major huge international media outlet recognising that collectively bloggers have a big enough voice to merit their own ad network. I’ve signed up and will update my progress here once I get some advertisers signed up.
What do you think?
Can bloggers be classed as journalists? Or have Gizmodo ruined it for us all?
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 at 3:23 pm and is filed under Blogging. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Welcome to my blog. My name is Kieron Donoghue and I run UK Offer Media Ltd. I thought it would be fun to post a daily (well hopefully daily) blog, writing about my experiences in Internet Marketing and more specifically Affiliate Marketing. I'll include some personal stuff too, probably about my other passions, music and cars. Please feel free to post your comments and thoughts too.
January 15th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Wow, what a debacle. I live here in the Wash. D.C. area and I ocaisionally refer to articles from washingtonpost.com and they do the same thing…give me a link under “who’s blogging about this.”
January 15th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
I can’t believe sphere adds parameters onto your url, now everybody that gets a link has to somehow fix it or get duplicate content problems.
January 15th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
I think the Gizmodo guys are just full of s***. Im all for Pranks, but at the right time!
With relation to Forbes and what they are doing. I have been thinking about the idea of starting my own blog network to capitalise on the collective advertising potential of sites, and now it is good to see Forbes are embracing the idea and im sure the advertisers will top quality.
January 15th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Nice link juice!
January 15th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
I mentioned back in September that I think we should be classed as Journalists because some bloggers are opinion formers just as much as some niche publications.
That’s why there’s a ePR (Social media optimisation) industry.
Referenced it here
Lee
January 18th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
[...] CES, which added to the debate as to whether bloggers should be classed as members of the press - Kieron reported that “among others, The Wall Street Journal certainly aren’t of this [...]
April 29th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Kieron,
Have you done anything more with the forbes network, is it worth joining and have you managed to get any advertisers yet.
Cheers,
Gaj