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# How blogging became today's new journalism
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2015/01/blogging-evolved-buzzfeed/
- Published: 2015-01-29T09:56:57.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T16:29:24.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Blogging, Buzzfeed, Journalism, new journalism, online journalism

[Ben Smith, Buzzfeed’s editor in chief](http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/this-is-my-blog?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> Indeed, the strongest new news outlets and the most nimble elements of the old ones have also co-opted and professionalized the tools and ethos of bloggers — fast, direct publishing; an informal voice; a commitment to transparency. We’ve pulled in some of the adaptable stars of that era. And we believe those people, tools, and values can serve our unchanging commitments to immediate, well-told, fearless, compelling, and independent journalism.

Nice piece, which really clarifies that the blogosphere (and how long is it since I last wrote that word\*?) of the mid-2000s is long dead, but blogging itself has inserted itself deeply into the DNA of today’s innovative web publishing.

\* *A quarter of a decade, [as it turns out](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/08/peak%5Fhype.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com).*