With experts making their debut on the World Wide Web, journalists may see some of their editorial roles disappearing.
As American writer and teacher, Clay Shirky, emphasizes in his article 'Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable', in the realm of the online world, “making something available to the public – has stopped being a problem,” allowing opinions to run rampant on the web as some experts have started to use the medium of blogging.
Andrew Steele, senior consultant at StrategyCorp., an elite public affairs firm in Toronto, is a blogger for The Globe and Mail on Canadian politics and says his expertise may be taking away from the analytical role of journalists.
Armed with university degrees specializing in the studies of the goings-on in the hallways of Parliament and Queen’s Park, he says that he becomes a threat to journalists with vast experience.
“Things have completely changed now that I am of equal weight to editorial writers,” says Steele.
As blogging is a side-job for Steele, he says he has never and will never get paid for what he does for The Globe and Mail and with his blog attracting a whopping 50,000 readers, it is easy to see why he is an invaluable asset to the national newspaper’s website.
“What journalists do is going out into the field and doing the actual news gathering,” says Steele. “Now I am the one they get to analyze the information. I am a capital "E" expert in politics.”
As American writer and teacher, Clay Shirky, emphasizes in his article 'Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable', in the realm of the online world, “making something available to the public – has stopped being a problem,” allowing opinions to run rampant on the web as some experts have started to use the medium of blogging.
Andrew Steele, senior consultant at StrategyCorp., an elite public affairs firm in Toronto, is a blogger for The Globe and Mail on Canadian politics and says his expertise may be taking away from the analytical role of journalists.
Armed with university degrees specializing in the studies of the goings-on in the hallways of Parliament and Queen’s Park, he says that he becomes a threat to journalists with vast experience.
“Things have completely changed now that I am of equal weight to editorial writers,” says Steele.
As blogging is a side-job for Steele, he says he has never and will never get paid for what he does for The Globe and Mail and with his blog attracting a whopping 50,000 readers, it is easy to see why he is an invaluable asset to the national newspaper’s website.
“What journalists do is going out into the field and doing the actual news gathering,” says Steele. “Now I am the one they get to analyze the information. I am a capital "E" expert in politics.”
Photo Caption: Andrew Steele, senior consultant at StrategyCorp. and political blogger for The Globe and Mail. (photo from The Globe and Mail)
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