1. Carissa Davis
Junior
UNC Chapel Hill

2. Campus Involvement
Office of Diversity and
Multicultural Affairs
Minority Student Recruitment
Committee
Omega Phi Beta Sorority,
Incorporated
Carolina Hispanic Association
Que Rico Latin Dance Team

4.  The Rise of Blogs and Blog types
 Blogs: Professional Journalism vs. Civic Journalism: The
case for both sides
 The Top Five Lessons Learned

5.  Blogging has created a new age of civic journalism and
has even given anyone the opportunity to be a
journalist without professional training
 Blogs have become a significant source for
news, projects, fashion trends and almost any subject
one can think of
 As a result of civic journalism through blogging and
the variety of blog types, audiences are turning to
blogs for news more often, this causes a threat to the
journalism career and its professionalism

6. The Rise of Blogs:
 In the past three years blogs have surged in popularity
 There are a variety of blog types
 Diary blog
 Filter blog
 News blog
 Project Blog
 How-to Blog
 Review Blog

7.  Blogger.com
 Wordpress.com
 Tumblr.com
 LiveJournal.com
 Blog.com
These sites have provided people with free opportunities to
write and share news on the internet without professional
training. This causes a dilution of the journalism career’s
professionalism and possible replacement of professional
journalists.

8.  Study of the rise in the popularity and significance of
blog use during a three year time period from 2009 to
2012 and the dilution of the journalism career as a
result.
 Determine how to lessen the dilution of the
journalism career and continue the need for
professional standards in journalism regardless of the
medium used.
 Main Sources of information: Literary works and
interview/lectures from a professor of Journalism and
Mass Communication at UNC Chapel Hill

9. Professional Journalism:
 Journalists are trained to be professional in their career
in order to accurately report news and prevent risk of
spreading false information or being sued
 Professional training includes historical research,
audience research, grammatical and spelling training,
review of ethics and media law
 Blogs threaten the success and professionalism of
journalism

10. Civic Journalism:
 After the 1830s the local aspect of the press was lost in
a move toward commercial control of news and
professionalism of members of the press.
 Local civic press serves as a cornerstone of democracy.
Eliminating local press would be a loss for the people.
 The rise of blogs shows a public dissatisfaction with
professional journalism

11. 1. Blogs can be seen as both a reversion or expansion of
journalism because they were a new creation that was
still connected to the older traditions of journalism.
 I agree with this because although blogs add new
aspects they still report the news. Professional journalists
also blog.
2. Blogs did not spring up as a result of technology,
there was always a call for some form of blogs, especially
for civic journalists. Technology just provided the
medium.
 I agree with this because civic journalism existed long
before blogs did. Blogs simply made civic journalism more
accessible and more connected.

12. 3, Blogs create a webbed network among writers and
readers that print news cannot make. Real-time posts
and comments creates competition for print.
 Today, readers are looking for news updated to the
second. Print news cannot do that the way blogs,
internet and social media can. The sooner news can be
updated, the more appealing that news medium is.

13. 4. Blogs encourage communication and conversation
between readers and authors in ways that print cannot.
 With blogs, readers can post their reactions and
comments on the blog and receive a response from the
author within seconds. Print cannot do that in the
same amount of time.

14. 5. Professional journalists need to change the way they
write and what they choose to write about in order to
remain competitive with bloggers.
 Professional journalists need to be competitive with
bloggers by appealing to readers. Readers have
interests that professional journalists have not
recognized yet.

15.  Blogs in Plain English:
Web Address:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI
Description: This video provides a clear explanation of
blogs, their purpose, how they developed and their
significance in professional journalism.
By Lee LeFever (Common Craft)

16.  What is a Blog? What is Blogging?
Web Address:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MqVbg6q2UQ
Brief Description: This video also features information
on what blogs are and how they work. This video has a
more comedic approach to the explanation of types of
blogs.
Source: Money Blog Engine July 7, 2011

17.  10 Myths About Blogs
 Web Address:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWRoakh6wGU
 Brief Description: This 5:59 long video breaks down
and explains some common myths about blogging and
the blogosphere.
 Source: Scott Rosenberg August 7, 2009

18.  Why Some Bloggers Struggle with Affiliate Marketing
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0tNQ5cv9po
 Brief Description: This video describes the difference
between blogs and static websites and how marketing
affects them.
 Source: Lisa Mach 27, 2011

19.  Top 100 Blogs
 Web Address: http://technorati.com/blogs/top100/
 Brief Description: This website give a detailed list of
top blogs and websites. The website also provides links
to the websites.
 Source: Technorati.com is a website that focuses on
technology. It gives technological information to
readers.

20.  Blogs in Plain English
 Web Address:
http://www.commoncraft.com/video/blogs
 Brief Description: This website gives an introduction
to blogs, their significance and how they operate.
 Source: Common Craft is a website that provides
simple informational videos on blogs and other
technologies

21.  Introduction to Blogging
 Web Address:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging
 Brief Description:. This page gives detailed
descriptions of blogs. The description is broken down
into various topics.
 Source: Wordpress is one of the major blog websites.

22.  A Short History of Blogging
 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/06/a-short-
history-of-blogging/
 Brief Description: This webpage gives information
about the rise of blogs and their climb to popularity
 Source: The Blog Herald is a website that gives news
and updates about the blogoshpere.