I think journalist dont use blogs becouse there are better tools or journalist. In internet is a lot of webservices for citizen journalist, which can publish any kind of material without agreement of redactions.
for exammple: http://ohmynews.com/http://reporter.co.za/ or in Poland http://www.ithink.pl./
That kind of webpresence make Journalist more independent in readers eyes.
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I think journalist dont use blogs becouse there are better tools or journalist. In internet is a lot of webservices for citizen journalist, which can publish any kind of material without agreement of redactions. for exammple: http://ohmynews.com/ http://reporter.co.za/ or in Poland http://www.ithink.pl./ That kind of webpresence make Journalist more independent in readers eyes.