Journalism isn’t the same as it was 20 years ago, and it is all thanks to the internet and social media. Since technology has been evolving throughout the years, there has been new methods how to get news and it isn’t from newspapers anymore although it is obvious. Brent Johnson explains how journalism has changed throughout the years since he experienced the transition of reading from a newspaper in his college days(2002) to just researching news stories online.
Brent Johnson, 32 who works for the Star-Ledger talks about his experience about how journalism has changed throughout time. Brent talks about his career path, who he has interviewed, and his experience of being a journalist. When Brent Johnson was in college, he had three types …show more content…
When Brent was in college it took a whole day to write an article, because it wasn’t published right away, like today. There wasn’t a way where you can develop pictures in one simple push of a button instead Brent had to go to a dark room in order to get his pictures.
Brent Johnson didn’t have the privilege of growing up with the technology, all he had was a cell phone, which was a simple pay phone at the time, so he couldn’t just rely on the news of social media because there wasn’t such thing as snapchat, facebook, or even twitter.
Brent Johnson describes the internet as a place where quick and accessible news can be found. However, there are downfalls to that as quick news can “give you bad information, rumors can be spread”. On the other hand, he is intrigued with how social media are now even publishing political debate, caucus results, other political events along with nationwide news. As he humoredly adds “I thought snapchat was just for sending quick 9 seconds pictures”.
Times have changed and there isn’t a way to prevent technology from developing rapidly. Brent Johnson has seen his generations change throughout the years, and how people went from reading the newspaper daily to just reading a story in a
Brent Johnson, 32 who works for the Star-Ledger talks about his experience about how journalism has changed throughout time. Brent talks about his career path, who he has interviewed, and his experience of being a journalist. When Brent Johnson was in college, he had three types …show more content…
When Brent was in college it took a whole day to write an article, because it wasn’t published right away, like today. There wasn’t a way where you can develop pictures in one simple push of a button instead Brent had to go to a dark room in order to get his pictures.
Brent Johnson didn’t have the privilege of growing up with the technology, all he had was a cell phone, which was a simple pay phone at the time, so he couldn’t just rely on the news of social media because there wasn’t such thing as snapchat, facebook, or even twitter.
Brent Johnson describes the internet as a place where quick and accessible news can be found. However, there are downfalls to that as quick news can “give you bad information, rumors can be spread”. On the other hand, he is intrigued with how social media are now even publishing political debate, caucus results, other political events along with nationwide news. As he humoredly adds “I thought snapchat was just for sending quick 9 seconds pictures”.
Times have changed and there isn’t a way to prevent technology from developing rapidly. Brent Johnson has seen his generations change throughout the years, and how people went from reading the newspaper daily to just reading a story in a