A Review of Journalism Blogs

In Journalism, my goal was to find blogs that relate to the Media and its changes. I simply typed "journalism blogs" into Google and multiple sites came up. The first one I clicked on was "Save the Media." It was really interesting because it showed the differences in journalism and blogging... etc. The best part about this woman's blog was that she had a blog roll, meaning it led to blogs she liked and ones that relate to hers. This opened up so many doors to me because the blogs she linked to linked to even more blogs! These are some of the blogs that I found helpful:

Save the Media: This blog gives ways of the changing media. It has a great article on how blogging is different from the journalism blog. This blog had a great blog roll that led to other great blogs.


Journajunkie: If you scroll down on this page, there is a really good post about how newspapers should learn from the paperboy. Another thing I liked about this blog was that it had "tags" on the side for topics the blogger writes about. This filtered the articles and made it easier for me to find what I was looking for.

Newspaper Death Watch: This blog basically predicts newspapers dying out, and that's not what I want! The thing that jumped out at me was the "R.I.P" column for all the newspapers that are no longer running. Besides for that, the blog posts were kind of boring.

Newsosaur: The first thing that jumped out at me was the title because I could already tell that the author of this blog is probably a veteran in the media business. My favorite thing about this blog was the headline under his main title at the top. It uses the term "extinction" when talking\g about the print industry. How clever is that?!

Scooping the News: This blog is cool because it is updated by a bunch of professors who talk about media changes involving social networking and other popular Internet tasks. Another interesting post talked about Journalists on Twitter.

Notes from a Teacher: This blog is so cool because the author is a current teacher but a former journalist (...sound familiar??). His most current article is about how the newspaper industry in Canada is doing a lot better than ours. This popped out at me because all I've been thinking about is the struggling newspaper industry in the U.S. and never thought to think about how it is in other countries. Just by reading his posts I can tell he's pretty intelligent.

News After Newspapers: This is a very simple blog compared to the others, but it majorly relates to my topic. Even though the blog is bland, it still has good information or specific facts about the industry. I will definitely be referring to it in the near future.

I wish I had the time to write reviews for these blogs because there are so many out there! I was so surprised to find as many blogs as I did about the changing media.