What is the difference between a journalist and a blogger?

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Dances · 23/09/2020 12:07

Can a blogger just call himself a journalist?

Can a blog declare itself a newspaper?

Is there an accrediated scheme or can any old charlatan say they are a journalist writing for a newspaper?

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Butterer · 23/09/2020 12:10

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ODFOx · 23/09/2020 12:10

If they are paid by an organisation to write then they are a professional writer.

If their writing, no matter how well researched, is on a blog and has elicited no fee then they are a blogger not a journalist.

Kanaloa · 23/09/2020 12:10

Blogging is online. I believe it originally came from the term ‘web-log.’ Blogs are generally quite informal and focus on the blogger’s personal life/interests. Journalists tend to collect and report on current events and it’s usually more formal.

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