blogging as a new media

KUALA LUMPUR: The National Union of Journalists Malaysia has urged the Government to acknowledge the existence of Internet citizen reporting and blogging as a new media for disseminating information.

NUJ president Norila Mohd Daud said this online phenomenon had made a great impact on the country as an alternative information source on current issues affecting the public.

“The usage of Internet and the concept of the uncensored ‘borderless world’ have made information more easily accessible to anyone. As such, any abuses by public officials can be immediately exposed on the Internet,” she said in a statement issued in conjunction with World Press Freedom Day yesterday.