Bloggers Gather to Study Journalism Techniques
More than 300 bloggers came to Nashville for a two-day conference that was heavy on teaching techniques used by journalists in what bloggers term “the mainstream media.”
One class at the conference taught students how to access and analyze government statistics.
Conference organizer Bill Hobbs called blogging “citizen journalism.”
There are more than 8 million bloggers, said Bob Cox, president of the Media Bloggers Assn.
Blogs, short for Web logs, are running commentaries on whatever their authors are interested in. Content often focuses on politics or media criticism.
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