We had an interesting discussion this afternoon on the impact of blogs on mainstream media. Media Development Program consultant Robb Montgomery sent a video message from a newspaper conference in Poland. He said that said that the main impact of blogs is that they have given a voice to the voiceless and forced newspapers to be more transparent. Our lead instructor Ehab El-Zelaky from Al Masry Al Youm, an independent paper in Cairo, agreed and added that blogs in Egypt have made it more difficult for newspapers to hide the truth but it the change has more to do with the personal efforts of journalists to respond to blogs rather than any institutional response by the papers themselves to the blogs.
Ehab El-Zelaky and Robb Montgomery
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