Quiz Me

MediaShift's Mark Glaser put together an interesting weblog , claiming that in the background of the bloggers vs. journalists argument: "mainstream media reporters have started blogging in droves, while larger blog operations have hired seasoned reporters and focused on doing traditional journalism."

To prove his point on how the lines between journalism and bloggers are blurring, he put together a quiz only Andrew Keen (and perhaps Brian Steffen) could pass (I won't tell you how badly I did on this, but I can tell you that my score would make you feel better about yourself).

1. Who won a recent Polk Award for investigative journalism, a blogger or MSM reporter?

2. Which big New York-based website has four editors and four reporters, and is looking to hire two more reporters — a blog or traditional media outlet?

3. Which site hired a young blogger fresh out of college? Blog or MSM site?

4. Which site in Silicon Valley edits 80% of stories before being published online? Blog or MSM site?

(see his article for the answers)

Interesting. Very interesting, indeed. Isn't it a great day to be both a journalist and a blogger?