A comment on my blog reads: All journalists are people, but not all people are journalists. With the advent of the internet and other technologies, like cellphone cameras, now anyone can become a journalist in the sense of reporting on events. Check out this video, in which Chris Hogg and David Silverberg from DigitalJournal.com explain the [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 28, 2008
Dolphins Mate
This is glorious! It’s from a project that my lecturers at Wits University are running, called www.earth-touch.com Click below to view! Go to their site to see more stunning wild life videos! I will be posting more videos from there soon…
May 27, 2008
Is blogging journalism?
Mmh… Certainly a debatable question. In the simple definition of journalism as journalising events, then yes, blogging is certainly journalism and has enabled anyone out there to be a journalist. But when considering the professional definitions of a journalist in terms of news values, fact-checking, credibility, then perhaps blogging should be seen rather as a mere tool [...]
May 27, 2008
Welcome to my blog!
I’ve been a journalist for six years and only now do I finally catch up to the blogging phenomenon! I haven’t a clue but I hear it’s easy. So here goes…. Come on, be with me on this journey. Be glorious!
