I see you’ve opened up your comments section – good to see, I think you’ll get a wider range of debate going on that pre-registering.

I agree, repairing bridges between journalism and PR has long been overdue. Each one relies on each other, particularly when bloggers have taken away many of the strengths that traditional journalism and PR once offered – exclusives, outreach and more.

While I know that you aren’t too sure about the use of Twitter for much more than trivial conversation, you’ll find it’s going a long way to breaking down the barriers between journalists, PR professionals and bloggers.

The weekly event JournChat is a three-hour meet between these three media outlets and is a great exchanging of voices, ideas and more from people in the front line of all three. I’d recommend anyone with even half a notion of cross-media convergence to join in.

Additionally, Peter Shankman has a wonderful idea called HARO – Help A Reporter Out – where again the PR and journalism industry come together to make the news as well as report it.

There are still some barriers in place, but they’re coming down quicker than a lot of people know.