Rückblick auf 2003: Blogging & Journalismus

Große Veränderungen für den Online-Journalismus hat das Jahr 2003 mit sich gebracht. Mark Glaser hat einige berühmte Kollegen befragt. Welche Entwicklungen sind 2003 für den Online-Journalismus von großer Bedeutung gewesen? Und wie schätzen sie das Jahr 2004 ein...

"Journalists getting involved in blogs, using them as a normal mechanism. Interconnection of blogs of similar philosophy.... I think this might represent a new big part of journalism, since an interconnected set of blogs is kind of a magazine. (This just occurred to me, I gotta blog it myself!)" -- Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist.org

"The rise of blogs, memorably during the war with Iraq, was the single most important development in online journalism in 2003. I felt that mainstream online outlets, including giants like NYTimes.com and CNN.com, struggled during the war. But blogs maintained by individual journalists on the ground in Iraq brought more color, insight, feeling and even humor to the war than anyone else." -- Angus Frame, editor of globeandmail.com

"Blogging definitely became more popular on online news sites this year. I've been tracking the number of Weblogs on news sites and during 2003 they increased from under 50 to well over 100. This is a great development, as blogging is a form that takes advantage of the Web's strengths: speed, short bursts of information, interactivity." -- Jonathan Dube, publisher of CyberJournalist.net

"2004 will be the year of better, richer, deeper content -- for a price. Online publications wrestling with their bottom lines spent 2003 embracing the paid content model. In 2004, they'll realize that the content needs to be damn good if people are going to shell out, so we should start to see improvements (better interactivity, more Web-exclusive journalism, a more intelligent approach to personalization, etc.)." -- Angus Frame

>> OJR: Mark Glaser: A Look Back at 2003, and What's on the Horizon for the Online News Universe