Blogging and Journalism Education, Part 2

Rob Pongsajapan poses a question:
Can you elaborate on the following: “Should we as journalism educators teach blogging—or is it something organic that can’t be taught?” When you say blogging could be organic, are you implying that students might have difficulty taking something they’d normally use in an informal context and turning it into a formalized thing?

Rachele Kanigel poses some more:
_* Is blogging a form of journalism?

* Should we be teaching it?
* If so, how should we teach it?
* What constitutes good journalistic blogging?

In conventional journalism for example, there are certain shared values and standards—good journalism is accurate, fair, balanced. It seeks the truth—or at least multiple perspectives on the truth.

Some journalistic bloggers seems to carry on these values.

Others seem to see it as a new form with new values.

I’m interested to hear what people think should be included in a blogging “curriculum.” _

I have some thoughts on these issues, but perhaps others would like to chime in as well. I’d also point folks to a study on bloggers and journalistic ethics I conducted with a fellow doctoral student: Bloggers Strike a Nerve. You can download a PDF of the study at the link.

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