Journalism

Journalism today is full of agenda setting and while a lot of people today are clamoring for unbiased news stories and outlets. The idea of agenda setting is so complex and has both positives and negatives to it. One of the biggest cases of agenda setting I believe was seen in 2014 after the shooting of Micheal Brown in Furgeson, Missouri. The news of his death, the decision to not charge the officer, and the ensuing protests all caused a stir within the media. Fox News was a big contributor…

writer’s workshop, I was able to meet other staff members of the paper along with students that possessed great interest in newspaper writing. I was very surprised to discover that one of them happened to be a science major that wanted to incorporate journalism and writing into this career field. This showed me that it doesn’t particularly matter what major you are declared as or what you want to study in the future, writing will always be a vital skill for someone to have under their belt.…

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 duties…

"The story of 3 women and 105 men", can you imagine this is actually refers to one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature "Water Margin"? When you read the headline, you will subconscious think that headline regarding to a yellow journalism and may generate curiosity to read more content, after you click on it, whereas it is actually a historical story about 108 heroes. This is called “clickbait”, which attract click-through rate by writing sensationalist headlines that…

position is to be working in a related field like a newspaper, a report website, or freelanced submitted reports to media organizations. The type of knowledge needed to possess in order to be successful as a journalist is to have Core values of Journalism, Ethics, Media law, Basic knowledge of the institutions of civic life, Learning how to freelance, reaching out to valuable resources, and to work for non-traditional organizations. The things one needs to be passionate about in order to be…

college. At Arkansas State University, there are many opportunities to help students get prepared for a potential job in the journalism field. “At ASU, the College of Media and Communication provides undergraduate students the opportunity to take a three-hour internship course (CMAC 4063).” (A-State 2016) Also, to help prepare students there are many forms of journalism available for the students. One such example of this would be ASU-TV. Students majoring in Sports Reporting who are also…

research in this area grows in importance as community publications, like all media companies, follow their audience online (Abernathy, 2014). The public traditionally has a stronger role and voice in the production of content within community journalism. The publication of user-generated content is one of those areas that differentiate community media. Community media has been demarcated differently in various studies, but for purposes of this dissertation community media is defined as…

In the world of journalism, journalists must simultaneously entertain and convince their audience in order to stay relevant. To entertain, journalists must have a highly biased or controversial viewpoints on several subjects, and to appear credible, they must communicate with rhetorical strategies. For example, in 2008, the Great Recession damaged many Americans, which gives Anna Quindlen the right timing to write an essay with proper rhetorical strategies. In Anna Quindlen’s “Stuff Is Not…

Since the beginning of American journalism, there has been a relationship between the reader and journalist of supply and demand. The reader wants scandalous or critical news and the journalist is happy to provide. In the 1960s, Clare Boothe Luce, in a speech made for the journalists in Women's National Press Club, criticizes the journalists for their seemingly mindless continuation of the supply and demand cycle. Luce challenges them to focus on the complete truth, rather than a fantastical…

In his editorial "Words Triumph Over Images," Curtis Wilkie describes the TV coverage of Hurricane Katrina as "unfiltered" and "reckless." He argues that print news journalists did a much better job covering the event than TV or radio news reporters, and for this reason he claims that print news is superior to other kinds of coverage. However, any type of news media could be characterized as either reckless or responsible, depending on how poorly or how well journalists use content, time, and…