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The blogging phenomenon has caught on with news media around the world, journalists from four continents reported at a World Media Forum at Georgia State University

            Not all of the journalists looked at the trend the same way. “We’re becoming obsessed with it,” said Rachael Rollo, senior reporter for Australia’s Channel 9. In Romania, added Ciprian Dan Baltoiu, senior political reporter for Romanian National TV, “If you’re not on the internet you don’t exist.”

            The forum, hosted in Speakers Auditorium by the university’s Center for International Media Education, featured 14 international correspondents from10 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. It was the 65^th forum – one of the Center’s Tenth Anniversary Events – and the first forum to be blogged.

            One Israeli broadcast journalist, Leah Stern, said blogging was one of several ways she covered a story in Sudan for her English language public television Israel Broadcasting Authority. In the Sudan she was reporter, cameraman, and blogger.  For news operations “looking for a one-man team,” she said, the ability to use multiple new media gives beginning reporters an advantage.

            In Germany, broadcasters’ blogs often communicate how decisions are made on news coverage. “We blog every day,” said Ariane Reimers of ARD TV, named by CNN as German Journalist of the Year. She noted that there is a new 100-second edition for cellphones...(Click here to read the full story)