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The Powers That Be by David Halberstam takes a look back at the history of the news media industry. The stories in the book, first written in 1979, talks about how traditional companies like Time, CBS, and the New York Times were small startup companies. In their early days, they were very similar to the new form of media taking the world by storm, Buzzfeed. There is so much to knowledge to learn when it comes to this new form of news media and yet the way they startup is similar to those before…

For my internship, I worked with the Stony Brook Press. I did not have an exact role going in but I was willing to do photography and writing. It was only a one credit internship and luckily, I was able work most hours whenever I had time, especially when it came to writing and editing pictures. I mainly worked with Niravni Williams who was the managing editor, but is now the executive editor. Before I even started my internship officially, I had talked with one of their writers who wanted to…

As hurricane Harvey hit the city flooded with water and the internet flooded with fake information. The Houston airport was underwater leaving planes to float atop the flood, a shark swimming in the fast lane of highway I-10, and Obama passing out meals and blankets to the evacuees. These are all hoaxes that went viral during a natural disaster hurricane Harvey. During emergencies people will result to looking at facebook or twitter to try and update themselves with the current happenings of the…

blueprint for journalists and sets a clear standard fails to address at least one particular situation. Every work of journalism is incredibly unique: the writer subject relationships are different, the approach, the parties involved, the context, the content. There are too many variables in each case for there to be set a standard for every piece or project. This is not to say that journalism is a lawless practice, it certainly isn’t. The ethical rules for writing about other people must be…

"The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion by John R. Zaller is one of the most-cited works of contemporary political science, with more than (6,500) citations recorded in the Google Scholar database." (Bartels, L. M.) In his book, Zaller investigates the influence of the "elite media" on the public through survey data. Zaller received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego in History and then went on to graduate from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984…

Analysis of 47 U.S. journalism codes of ethics showed that only 9 addressed the issue of how to deal with images of violence or tragedy. However, specific issues related to violence during wartime and how to exhibit such graphic content is not addressed whatsoever throughout any of the 47 codes of ethics analyzed(Keith, Schwalbe,Silcock). Unlike physicians, photojournalists are not bound by an oath, which can make it ever more difficult to determine the appropriate approach when encountering a…

success of modern media. Throughout its recent formation, media has evolved though time to meet the needs of modern society. Mixing entertainment with world events and vastly exploiting the truth for the sake of money and popularity. Sensationalist journalism such as A…

approximately three hundred years, media has been providing local and international to people around the world. However, the first act of political bias (when a US media systematically skews reporting in a way that crosses standards of professional journalism) was conducted in 1861 when President Abraham Lincoln accused newspapers in the border states of bias in favor of the Confederate cause and then ordered many of them to close. In the 19th century, many American newspapers made…

• Confirmation Bias o As America becomes increasingly bi-partisan and social media is a rising medium to consume political news and data, social media is increasing Americans confirmation biases. With social media, for example Twitter, you are able to consume news that solely supports your views. As I have friends on both sides of the political spectrum, I have seen confirmation bias as they refuse to follow accounts that go against their beliefs. This confirmation bias is prevalent as their…

The media plays a large role in our lives. However the most vital thing that the Media does is provide us with News. The News exposes us to important events across the world. For example the Syrian refuge crisis. If the general public were not informed about events like this there would be no push for change. Many worldwide events would go unnoticed in other parts of the world if the news and educational media did not exist. This form of media provides the general public with important worldwide…