One of the major issues with the surge of 'news' blogs taking over the internet is that many of them have an obvious bias. This is considered a negative in the journalism world but can actually be a positive online. Instead of hoping your local newspaper doesn't have an opinion on whatever you're reading you can read many opinions and views then form your own. Online journalism is simply the practice of taking something that has been done for centuries (the reporting of news and indepth articles) and putting it on the web.