I would prefer to look past the blog trend and catch a little more opportunities. I.e. make your knowledge available in several forms – printreport, webreport, videoreport, podcast – and also make it available to several news companys. If it’s urgent enough they don’t seem to dislike a little overlap or two.

All You newsdesk people ought to make Yourself a promise: From this day I’ll make myself a new habit. That is, leave the newsdesk for at least one hour and get in touch with real people to get to know their ups and downs, opinions and views, sorrows and joys.

-Karen

http://solshine7.blogspot.com

In a newsroom you have access to certain resources and a level of credibility that has not yet found its way to blogs, in the eyes of the mainstream.

Once blogs reach that level, something they are coming closer to more and more every day (like many bloggers being granted press credentials now), then solo blogging will thrive even more.

I give it 3-5 years before we are coining the term “open-source/crowd-sourced journalism.”