Wired News: Blogging for Bucks Some day my own "current buzz" will be where Ali's PaidContent is, at least in my dreams and aspirations. For now, I have to try and convince skeptical journalism educators of a certain age that this is the future of journalism, at least for some of students. Note, he is working sans editor. That is one of the big issues that comes up over and over when blogging and journalism are discussed. What is the role of an editor? Do you need one? I tend to think that the copy editing function would be helpful, though like Ali notes, that would slow down his reporting. The gatekeeping and story budgeting function of editors is not clear online where the viewer/users might be helping with a story, defining what you report, and where space isn't really an issue. If you can demonstrate you are drawing the "eyeballs" the advertisers will come to you. Interesting, interesting, interesting.