Journalism school

Citizen journalism is unregulated by the journalistic values, so the most notable risk for citizen journalism is the ethical questions it may raise. Matt Sienkiewicz (2014) claims that the value of amateur journalism is divorced from the journalistic virtues such as impartiality or accuracy. News organizations are increasingly obsessed with the competition for speed and reporting promptly, leaving them with limited time to make decision (Rosenberg and Feldman, 2008, cited in Patching and Hirst,…

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…

Divide, and he wrote a article about hardships and the reputation of The High School of Commerce in Massachusetts. The school has various problems such as education inequality, disadvantage in education opportunities, and many outside factors that impact the student's life outside of school. Eric Bosco uses logical appeal and pathos to persuade readers that Commerce is a bad school, but it is getting better. The High School of Commerce is known by the community as a “failing”…

Viral Content How News Websites Spread (and Debunk) Online Rumors, Unverified Claims, and Misinformation,” written by Craig Silverman is an article with the intention of being used as a guide for journalism students at the Columbia Journalism School. The author aims to remind these students what journalism was created to be, the inaccuracy it has conformed to, and the opportunity they have to improve the polluted stream of media today. Silverman considers purification of today’s news to be…

he would be working in a certain branch of the armed forces that protect our country. Aaron was the most interested in creative writing and journalism. This means that Aaron is very interested in editing, writing, and sharing stories with an audience. I had two main interests that scored the same score of a 100. One of mine was creative writing and journalism and the other one was beauty and style. This means that I like Aaron also love to write, edit, and share stories with an audience, but I…

The organization that I showed the most interest in for this assignment was The Independent Collegian Newspaper. My High school that I graduated from, unfortunately, did not have a newspaper to be apart of, and when I found out about this organization on campus, I knew that it would be a great experience that I could learn a lot from. I’ve always had a passion for writing, and I figured that this would be a great opportunity to learn about the process of creating and publishing a newspaper. I…

What is PRFM actually doing by facilitating the formation of Netizen Photo PRFM Community? Does PRFM still function as mass media, since conventional theories do not say that mass media need to be a community moderator like what PRFM is doing? According to Patria, from the beginning PRFM always prefer to be a medium amongst people so it could make significant social changes. PRFM already considered that the one-way practice as the conventional mass media do is no longer effective to make…

writing muscles, but also has given me a medium to publish and receive feedback which has helped me tremendously. Throughout the years, I 've also played around with writing original short stories and songs. As soon as I started high school, I joined the new Journalism Club, and I have written for every issue (and sometimes more). I 've covered a variety of topics, from world news to opinion pieces to student interviews to reviews. Starting in 11th grade, was elected Features Editor, adding more…

a place where their decisions, actions and motivations are most likely to be featured.”(Cushion, 2015) The reason these “political actors” are under the spotlight frequently is due to the their impact on the peoples every day lives and futures. Journalism influences the publics opinion of political leaders by reporting poll numbers, the journalist may verbally announce their personal opinions or on social media which could cause their followers opinions to sway. Journalist also reports…

In today’s society journalists and editors play a large role in providing the public with credible information; however when it comes to photographs, when does the public know if they are saying the truth? At this moment in time it’s very easy for journalists and editors to manipulate pictures and images which rises speculations among the people. Manipulating an image or photo has plenty of ethical issues which are that people can lose their trust in the journalists/editors and lose credibility…