It's a fascinating question with the anticipated answer of "yes, of course blogs are changing journalism"--a kind of knee-jerk response that celebrates social media and the way in which the modern newscape has become more democratically leveled and networked--whereas, upon deeper reflection, this is followed by a more nuanced response that perhaps blogging has changed the style, delivery, and consumption of the news rather than changing the hallowed principles of professionalism, ethics and accuracy in the field of journalism.

What do you think? Yes more than no ... or the other way around?

In his blog for Reuters, titled "A slice of lime in the soda," Felix Salmon responds to a series of interview questions from Benzinga's Laura Hlebasko that are elucidating enough in their raw form, but for the purposes of this entry are boiled down to the essentials in answering the question about blogging and its impact on journalism. Hlebasko asks of the difference between writing a story for traditional print media versus writing a blog entry for Reuters, to which Salmon responds there are "big differences" in the writing form, that with a blog his voice is more conversational and situated within the context of an ongoing dialogue within the network of other blogs on the topic and even with himself (seen in updates to the entry as more information comes to light).