A Columbia Journalism Review dá destaque ao mundo dos blogs num artigo da sua edição de Setembro/Outubro, analisando o peso crescente dos autores dos blogs, analisando o surgimento de um número crescente de jornalistas amadores. O artigo pode ser lido aqui. Um excerto que vale a pena reter: And these amateurs, especially the ones focusing on news and current events, are doing some fascinating things. Many are connecting intimately with readers in a way reminiscent of old-style metro columnists or the liveliest of the New Journalists. Others are staking the narrowest of editorial claims as their own — appellate court rulings, new media proliferation in Tehran, the intersection of hip-hop and libertarianism — and covering them like no one else. They are forever fact-checking the daylights out of truth-fudging ideologues like Ann Coulter and Michael Moore, and sifting through the biases of the BBC and Bill O'Reilly, often while cheerfully acknowledging and/or demonstrating their own lopsided political sympathies. At this instant, all over the world, bloggers are busy popularizing underappreciated print journalists (like Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mark Steyn), pumping up stories that should be getting more attention (like the Trent Lott debacle), and perhaps most excitingly of all, committing impressive, spontaneous acts of decentralized journalism..