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World press chiefs debate how to beat bloggers

Global press chiefs gathered here on Sunday to thrash out how best to wrestle with the rise of the Internet, stay on top of technology, and beat countless bloggers and citizen journalists to the story.

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EDINBURGH: Global press chiefs gathered here on Sunday to thrash out how best to wrestle with the rise of the Internet, stay on top of technology, and beat countless bloggers and citizen journalists to the story.
 
Media professionals, huddled in the Scottish capital for the International Press Institute's World Congress, debated the long-term challenges and opportunities that the new media age would throw their way.
 
Krishna Bharat, a principal scientist for Internet search engine giant Google, warned editors that the web was going to reshape their industry.
 
"With each previous new technology, the face of journalism changed and we reinvented ourselves, but the heart of journalism -- the editorial process, editorial objectivity and values did not change," Bharat said.
 
"Our industry's methods of information collection and dissemination will change but not core editorial practices."
 
He told editors: "Rather than ask 'How is the Internet going to affect my current operation?' it is smarter and more useful to ask: 'What benefits can the Internet bring to the news audience?' and 'How can I help bring that opportunity to the market?'"
       
Bharat said that as the number of bloggers rose, those churning out valuable journalism would too – which editors had to take into account.
 
Delegates debated the value of citizen journalism, citing last year's London attacks, where many of the most striking images and footage were captured by people on the spot -- trapped in the bombed Underground trains, which professional journalists could not access.
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