The Differences Between Journalists and Bloggers

The Differences between Journalists and Bloggers

1.     Blogging originally something personal:

The main concept of blogging is to write personal daily events in a form of a website. Then this concept was developed to be more than one type. The common type is the personal electronic space to express the personal opinions.

2.     Journalist conveys news and blogger comments on it:

In journalism, the journalist doesn’t have to write his opinion; he only conveys the news as it is with a very natural form or according to the newspapers or the media policy. On the other hand, the blogger only writes his personal opinion about the news or the different issues.

3.     Academic journalism is a prerequisite for a journalist:

To be a blogger, you don’t have to be an academic journalist and as blogging is for all. It doesn’t depend how much knowledge you have; yet, it depends on his general information and his way of thinking.

Yet the journalist has some journalistic skills such as writing a reports, doing interviews and so on. So, to be a real journalist, you have to have an academic certificate in journalism.

4.      Blogger is not a journalist, which is not a doctor, too:

Let’s say, a person has had an ill, and he was cured. Then he decided to create a blog to write his experience with the ill, and to share how he could be cured by sharing the causes of the ill, and the medicine he took. Are we going to call this person as a doctor? Defiantly not right. This also goes to any blogger who writes on political and social issues.

5.      How the blogger publishes, and how the journalist publishes:

The blogger always writes immediately; yet, the journalist has to open his report with an introduction and end it with a conclusion.

The blogger doesn’t care about the title too much as he cares about the content. However, the journalist may take too much time to choose his title more than writing the content.

The blogger is and editor for himself; yet, the journalist must obey his editor’s laws and rules.

The blogger can publish in any time; yet, the journalist must publish in cretin times.


Reference: http://osamaa.com/myxp/blogger-vs-journalist.php
* The article is written in Arabic Language.