Journalism genres

The media is a very important part of our society as they are responsible for keeping us informed of what is going on in today’s world, and communities. As everything else in life, things change over time. The Media was forever changed after the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. There are many differences on how the news was covered before and after this horrible tragedy. If that would have happened in the media era today, I believe the way it was reported then would have been different today…

bloggers. Holiday successfully manipulated bloggers to market the products of his clients; however, the consequence of his corrupted manipulation backfired him, and he gave up manipulating blogs and confessed his corruptions and the flaw of interactive journalism in his book. The book was published in 2012, and the contents seem to be still relevant to today. Bloggers earn money by selling advertisements; “Advertisement × Traffic = Revenue” (Holiday, 32). “The economics of the Internet created…

Introduction There are many important influences and matters of life that changes the way people react to the society all around the world. One of the most important influences is the mass media communication. Mass media is the diversity collections of technologies and communications that reach the largest audience all around the globe. I interviewed different ages, genders, and nationalities to know how they are influenced to mass media. In this essay, I will talk about the influences of…

Sports journalism is something that seems easy but which takes a lot of time, effort, and work to be successful at it. Some journalists use cold, hard facts, while others try to create rumors to formulate interesting articles. Despite different strategies some columnists use, the best sports journalists build ethos through making accurate reports, creating topics that are not only controversial, but also debatable, and providing reliable statistics writing about topics. By using these approaches…

The media are another method used to influence the law making process. Media includes television, social networks, radio, newspapers and journals. Their role is to influence and/or represent public opinion, also, make the government aware of what is happening in the society, promoting issues and causes. Pressure groups also use the media to get their view across, as well as ordinary people. A great influence is carried out by the media towards the government. There are many example of the media…

Sarah Liese, Tyler Kelly, Italiana Anderson, Cathy Ryngaert 10 Ethical Questions: We need to know who has the ownership to the photo. Without this, we will not know be able to conclude who’s in the wrong Our journalistic purpose is to tell the truth and keep the readers informed so they can make sense of the world around them. Our ethical concerns are manipulating a photo in a way that creates a false sense of reality and that could ultimately harm the public. “Don’t deceive a trusting…

Is Muckraking a Bad Thing, Or is it for the Greater Good Muckraking, by definition, is to search for and expose real or alleged corruption. A journalist, by definition, is a person who writes for newspapers or magazines or prepares news to be broadcast on radio or television. I believe that Mitford did exactly both of those things to get the title “Queen of Muckrakers.” I agree with her view in saying that it is an honor to be called a muckraker. From someone who has no inside view in…

Do people prefer to watch news with bias? One article of Greg Beato’s entitled "The Spin We Love to Hate" has seemed to present the argument that our media is biased, even though the majority of people prefer news be non-biased. Beato started off his article with a statistic that shows that 67 percent of people prefer that their news was non-biased, which he ironically states that the top news reporters have been doing the exact opposite. The author will go on to present a few examples of…

paradigms were prominent during the late 1890's one of these three newspapers prevailed and it was the New York Times. There were many reasons why the Times prevailed and the others failed. According to the excerpt, "The Year That defined American Journalism" it quotes, "… the Times offered a detached, impartial, fact-based paradigm that embraced the innovative technologies emergent in the late nineteenth century but eschewed extravagance, prurience, and flamboyance in presenting the news,"…

Do we even have a real or true identity? Our identity is made up of many characteristics like our sexuality, gender, and a particular culture, nation, religion, family, or some other group. More characteristics that our identity has is our looks, personality, beliefs, and fears. We get some of our traits and qualities through the people and stuff around us. So our identity is not a choice because we are invariably being influenced by the media and our family. One of many reasons why identity is…