This document compares and contrasts journalism blogs like CNN blogs with personal blogs like The Everywhereist. Journalism blogs contain factual news stories written by professional journalists and require confirmation and fact-checking before publishing. Personal blogs express individual opinions and ideas and can be updated more freely without certification. While journalism blogs focus on informing audiences about current events, personal blogs aim to share experiences and inspire readers on various topics. Both use social media platforms to promote engagement and drive traffic to their blogs.

1. Comparision between journalist blog
(CNN blog) and personal blog (The
Everywhereist)
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2. What is Journalism blog?
CNN Blog
 Journalism blogs are basically blogs contain news story.
 It is basically proven by official company, for example, CNN blog.
 In Journalism blog, photos or sometimes videos will be posted to show more
proof and easy understanding for audiences.
 Journalism blog are facts, and are real cases happening around us.
 In journalism blogs, professional journalists are the authors.

3. What is personal blogging? (The
Everywhereist)
 Blogging is a type of giving out an opinion on a certain platform, known as blog.
 In blogs, the information given might not be totally true, as it is not certified by
any third parties before posted.
 However, blogs post are usually much faster than journalism blogs.
 Different bloggers will have different ideas or topics toward their own blogs,
therefore the style between blogs will be different.

4. Content
 For content, journalism blog are basically more serious on writing, while for
personal blogging, it is more relaxed and self-opinion.
 The content for journalism blog must always be confirmed before the publication,
but personal bloggers can update the information any time they want.
 Journalism blogs giving out facts that could bring huge impact towards audiences,
while personal bloggers are basically sharing out something.

5. Target audiences
 For the target audiences, journalism blogs basically focus on the one who are
interested towards the world’s run.
 Personal bloggers are basically aiming anyone who need suggestions or
inspiration on something, and they share their own ideas towards it.
 Therefore, journalism blogs keep updating news which currently happening
around our world.
 Personal bloggers update their blogs on the right time, to attract more audiences.

6. Platform for engagement
 To engage more audiences towards either journalism blogs or personal
blogging, both use social media platforms to benefit themselves.
 Nowadays, people are quite often in using social media, this plays a big
role for not even promote, but remaining the audiences.
 An example of these, a blogger will open a page on Facebook and
Instagram in order to promote his or her own blog.
 Both type of blogs do have their own accounts on social media platform
to have more traffic and audiences.

7. Preparation before publication
 In journalism blogs, journalist usually needs the confirmation of the story before
posting.
 Furthermore, their posts could not be too sensitive, as journalists required to be
balance before publish
 Therefore, the posting period always will be after the editing and confirmation
from their superior.
 However, for personal blogger, they express their own feeling or willing to share
out something.
 They can keep updating their posts or edit them even they already posted.
Journalism blogs cannot do so.

8. Authors
 Journalism blogs hire actual journalists to maintain their blogs
 It may contains a number of journalists who is working for the company, eg: CNN
news blog
 In personal blogs, it basically only consists the writer who managing the blog
 Therefore, the number of postings for personal blogs are much lesser than
journalists blog.