Journalism and the challenge of the bug called blog

 

Published on January 21 2007 ,Page 17

 
 
 
 
 
 
  

 

L IKE a wayward spinster worried over the cessation of her monthly period, some media executives are down with a blog fever. The harder they try to wish it away, the more the reality dawns on them. Last week, the managing director of a Lagos-based information [...]

Personal publishing has changed the way magazines approach journalism

The magazine industry is gradually waking up to the fact that disseminating information is no longer the exclusive preserve of the mainstream media
Casmir Igbokwe
“I’m a digital immigrant. I wasn’t weaned on the web, nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralised world where news and information were tightly controlled by [...]