Journalism

Jianghao Wang Autobiographical Essay While I was walking in Washington Post Office with Joey Marburger in this past May, as part of PICC’s Washington Maymester program, I was so astonished seeing how close the technical team work with production team. It reminded me the efforts I put in trying to make more information accessible to the public readers as a contributor to a Chinese technology blog. There are mainly two reasons why I would like to get involved in news industry. The very first…

Why can’t we have school newspaper? Well, some places aren’t safe and school is loaded with children. School is for kids to learn, but also to be safe. Here is why we shouldn’t have a newspaper. Newspapers are for giving you information about weather, sports, science, etc. Some newspapers have gossiped about relationship, hobbies, etc. Kids will stalk kids about something secretive like relationship or something weird about them or their life. Then that kid will brag about it to the newspaper…

The media isn’t always right. I can be argued and discussed that the media just tries to get “their” story out there before anybody else. It doesn’t matter if they have the right story or not it's just about who can get it out to the public first. On the issue of “Blue Lives Matter” the media will mostly make it out to seem that the cops are always the bad guys and the troubled citizens we should feel sorry for. It is a race. A race for the media to get their side of the story out first. We as…

For so many years leaders of nation states were able to mostly control the flow of media information to the papers and small media outlets. With the development of technology and the fast rise of global networks the role of media has grown immensely. Political leaders who oppose any type of protest will try and ban media outlets like what we saw in Tunisia and Egypt. In Tunisia President Ben Ali was a tyrant who did any means possible to limit any type of protest. Some of the ways he would make…

It is a well-known fact that humans desire information, which is why the media is a dynamic part in so many Americans lives today. Instinctively millions of American citizens will create beliefs on certain subjects established upon what they are seeing, hearing, or reading in the media. The truth is, if we were deprived of the media, information and news would travel at a sluggish rate, which would leave people oblivious as to what is going on in the world around them. But, the problem is that…

In Timothy Cook’s Media Power and Congressional Power, the main point is that the media coverage goes hand-in-hand with popularity in government. Up until two centuries ago, the media was not crucial in the search for election or re-election. Officials had to work their way up the totem pole, and network with higher bureaucrats to build relationships and resumes. In turn, now the media helps to get them reelected, and surprisingly helps in policymaking, influence on Congress and Washington, and…

Media bias is generally described as the prejudice shown through different media outlets, such as newspapers, news channels, and even radio shows. While some people do not see harm in miniscule opinions, the general public does not reflect on the power these news reporters contain. With a single misused adjective, these journalists have the ability to shape and contort opinion’s society holds of certain situation or person. During an experiment produced by the Pew Research Center, it was…

Thesis: Situational reporting and communications require refined, unbiased, objective reporting for decision makers. Senior leadership utilizes situation reports to analyze actionable information for making decisions. Organizations all depend on the up to date reporting when managing an incident or situation. The importance of the rhetorical situation. When explaining your message to your audience, “The writer needs to understand the needs of the audience to create a document that the audience…

In observation of environment consistently overrun with striking and embellished news stories, consumers of political media constantly search for the quickest form of information to maintain a general understanding of a situation. In viewing these usually biased, meager reports of events, consumers are quick to establish their opinions from off the way information is presented to them. After their opinions are presented to them through various forms of media, the general public lacks an urge to…

Bias in the Media Kyle Hill once said “We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our eyes like distorting spectacles for everything we look at.” The perpetuation of misinformation is a plague that will always be in society which will always leave todays public constantly questioning any and all source of information that is put out as bias or attempting to sway a reader…