Journalism school

Introduction It is a huge relevance in today’s world and surrounding how media affects all of us. Media cultivates the perception of our mind and the way how we view things because it is heavily congested with a biasness by one spectrum of perspective. The targeted community that is seen in the media are usually the vulnerable and diverse groups. This can come from a spectrum of different people such as different race, different religion, disable people, indigenous community and the LGBT…

Target Audience: The target audience for the Meaghan Paige fashion app would be women 18 to 35 years old who reside within the Philadelphia or surrounding suburban areas that are interested in fashion and design. As well as fashion forward women whose everyday life consist of chic, stylish, and casual wear to fit their ever changing moods. Our audience consists of women who want fast and easy piece clothing that they can transition from day to night with ease. In addition, women who want great…

I. Introduction The advancements of new media have contributed to the explosive use of social media by journalist (Hermida 2011; Messner, Linke, and Eford 2011; Newman 2009). Gulyas (2013) demonstrated that the vast majority (96%) of the journalists responded to his research among 4 countries (Finland, German, Sweden and the UK) used social media for their work. Besides, the 1440-minute news-cycle created by social media significantly impacts journalistic practices in terms of newsgathering and…

In the past couple of years there have been an increase in users of social media. There is more and more people that join social media everyday. Social media has evolved into a wide array of sites and apps that enable users to interact with others by sharing or viewing photos, videos, restaurant or hotel reviews, blogs, and news articles (Global issues in context online collection par6). Social media allows people to express their own opinion about certain topics, and also interact with other…

Mass media are a form of communication that reaches the masses whether it be written, displayed, or broadcasted. Types of mass media include television, the Internet, newspapers, and the radio to name a few. Mass media plays a vital role in our democratic society, it influences the beliefs, perspectives, and decisions of the audience targeted. Sociologist considers the mass media representation and creation of culture otherwise known as mediated culture (Dean, 2010). We live in a society today…

Aging: Youth’s Serial Killer Everyday we walk around, enjoying the life we built and the people we have met, pretending that life will forever be frozen in a state of perfection, but what we don’t tend to realize is that life happens with every breath we take. Every second and every breath we take in our expected perfect lives, we age and many people choose to ignore it because it is something we cannot change. Even though we have the free will to choose not to acknowledge our inevitable aging,…

make important contributions to the media agenda through their sightings and public opinions. At the forefront of contributors, citizen journalists stand out as people reporting and gathering evidence without being formally trained in the art of journalism. Citizen journalists create a major amount of stories and evidence that gets broadcast to a wider audience through television news and Internet articles. The major media companies of today sometimes rely on contributions that come from citizen…

Shield laws are enacted in 49 states and the District of Colombia (Riker, 2015), based on the First Amendment guarantee of Freedom of the Press (Shield Laws, n.d.). Although, most states have enacted shield laws for their journalists, there does not exist a federal journalist shield law. This is because the U.S. Supreme Court does not want to interpret the First Amendment as mandating a news reporter 's privilege (Shield Laws, n.d.). The media is supposed to have the role as the country 's…

The film Rich Media Poor Democracy asserts that journalism in the United States does not serve the interest of the public, instead they serve the interest of media corporate bosses. Moreover, the film points out the media corporate bosses are to blame for the absence of choice and diversity in the media which stems from a shortage of competition created through mergers. Rich Media Poor Democracy proposes that citizen involvement can and should rescue the media, otherwise corporate bosses will…

“Inevitably journalists, their interests, backgrounds, intellectual capacity and prejudices shape what they consider we need to know” (Goward, 2006). Therefore, if there are more men than women within journalism, and especially in the higher decision making positions, then the media presented is likely to be skewed to the perspective of males. In New Zealand, there is a discrepancy in the gender representation within public broadcasting boards compared…