Uncle Jay Explains blogs. How to Add Your Blog Feed to Your Facebook Profile. The Web 2.0 Blogs Will Be Fine in 09. The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press clips. It seems downright archaic now but that’s how I learned about the press - by cutting, pasting up and photocopying clippings. Blogs Influence Journalists, Nearly all Facets of News Coverage. Blogs are not only having an impact on the speed and availability of news but also influencing the tone and editorial direction of reporting, according to a survey of US journalists by Brodeur, a unit of Omnicom Group.
New media (social media and blogs) are having an impact on many aspects of reporting, particularly the speed and availability of news, Brodeur said. The majority of journalists said blogs were having a significant impact on news reporting in all areas tested – except news quality: The biggest impact of blogs is in the speed and availability of news.Over half also said that blogs were having a significant impact on the “tone” (61.8%) and “editorial direction” (51.1%) of news reporting.