Once an amateur turns professional, they go from “doing it for free” to “making money”. This is true with sports, mainly, but does the same hold true for bloggers? That’s basicly what happens when a blogger goes from writing whatever they want for free, to getting “paid to blog”. Do they go from blogger to journalist? No, because they’re one in the same.
Professional Bloggers are Professional Reporters. Everyone has the right to say what they want, though. Thank you for your opinion on this, Gene!
Jeff Jarvis seems to agree with me, stating that “Journalism is a verb, not a noun“. He describes it as the “old journalism” and the “new journalism”.