Journalism

literacy project, we decided to focus on social media and its impact on journalism. Social media plays a huge part in modern society, and it has affected many things; be it positive or negative. For journalists it has also had good and bad outcomes. Journalists have had to adapt to our changing culture by understanding the value social media has in regards to today’s news. Social media has changed many aspects of journalism. Now, for the consumer, sharing news has become more important than…

Convergence has changed traditional broadcast journalism as much as it has changed print media. In fact, American media companies continue to take solid steps forward by merging diverse media outlets such as newspapers, television broadcasting, radio broadcasting with online journalism (Huang, et al., 2006). Successful journalists must be a jack of all trades in order to succeed in the competitive world of broadcast journalism. The days of merely standing in front of a camera operator with…

changing nature of popular journalism in the second half of the nineteenth century? Northcliffe revolution, commercial journalism, new journalism, society journalism, and “massocratic journalism” are words generally ascribed to the emergence of popular journalism. Popular journalism can be defined as quick and cheap journalism, which appeased the whole population. Examples include tabloid newspaper companies such as the Pall Mall Gazette and the Daily Mail. Commercial journalism was a…

Citing numerous studies of media content, composition and reception, Thomas Patterson in Informing the News: The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism, argues for an ambitious rethinking of how journalists are trained. Concerned about the misinformation among Americans who rely on media as their main source of information, Patterson traces the quickening of news cycles from trends to process to elucidate how they have resulted in the loss of accuracy in reporting. Today’s journalists too often…

They Don’t Bait Us: Buzzfeed Follows Ethical Journalism Introduction Digital media mogul Buzzfeed came under fire in 2014 when Jon Stewart publicly accused the company of using clickbait. At this time, the media company was on the upswing, quickly dominating online print and video journalism and accumulating a cult following. The accusation sparked two responses from two different Editors-in-chief at Buzzfeed and an in-depth look at the company’s linguistic statistics. The frenzy left a few…

“On the Death of Journalism – and of My Career at the Independent Newspaper” by Christina Patterson is a piece about the death of journalism and the following consequences as a freelancer. Patterson, a well-established journalist who has worked for “The Independent Newspaper”, claims that traditional journalism is dying. Patterson bases her claim upon various observations. For example she states that all the established newspapers based in USA are experiencing an eight-figure yearly downturn in…

As the term itself implies, literary journalism contains journalistic work, too. Krakauer spent approximately one year retracing McCandless’ path and additionally based part of his work on documentaries recorded by the protagonist himself. Krakauer modifies his narrative throughout Into the Wild hinging upon the situation. In order to highlight a contrast of his version to a journalistic reportage about McCandless, I have chosen an example of a mainstream newspaper article by The New York Times,…

In the late 1800’s, Julius Chambers checked herself into a mental asylum undercover as a mental patient and began composing one of the first forms of muckraker journalism, which exposed the abuse inmates were subjected to within these asylums. After Julius Chambers infamous account of the asylums, muckraker journalism spread like wildfire, leading to exposed political corruption and social scandals. Since the muckraker movement, news has become exceedingly relevant in people’s lives to get…

that category, I went deeper into research and found that Broadcasting Journalism could be my niche. Some of the ideals behind that career relate to the most of my strengths which made it easy to pick as my future career. Broadcasting Journalism caught my attention because one night me and my stepmother were doing something that involved writing and she said she sees a potential with journalism…

this media in this case, journalism has operated in the favor of politicians in the 18th and 19th century. With the invention of the printing press the appearance of the newspaper allowed information and news to be circulated and spread throughout the masses. The invention of the newspaper brought us the concept of the partisan press, this refers to when news papers and other forms of media are biased in favor to one party, cause or political figure. There…