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Blog Bits - Week of May 9th

The New Communications Blogzine  had an interesting article on The Future of Journalism by Tom Foremski.  In his article he claims that as online publishing grows stronger, the more traditional media models are in trouble.  He says that “new media technologies that are represented by blogging, RSS, etc., will undoubtedly lead to a more vibrant "mediasphere" that will trade in a broad currency of ideas, rather than requiring a lot of currency to broadcast ideas.”  On the other hand, Nick Denton, publisher of Gawker Media argues that “the (blog) hype comes from unemployed or partially employed marketing professionals and people who never made it as journalists wanting to believe there's going to be this new revolution and their lives are going to be changed."  Only time will tell who’s right.

There will be a second Global PR Blog Week this summer from June 13-17, 2005.  This is an online conference on how new media technologies are changing the practice of Public Relations and corporate communications. 

PR Tactics posted an article called Consumer-Generated Media - Challenges and Opportunities for Public Relations by Lloyd Trufelman.  In his article, Trufelman says that consumers are in control of consumption and can decide which channel they want to listen to.  He speculates that blogs are a reaction the the “increasing bland coverage presented by many local market editions of chain newspapers”

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