Category Archives: World News

Journalists: Bringing us the news that really matters

 

According to Nordenson’s article Overload! Journalism’s Battle for Relevance in an Age of Too Much Information, journalists aren’t going anywhere. This is good news for me because journalism may be in my future. This is good news to others …

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The changing face of American journalism

American journalism is rapidly changing in this day and age, most media conglomerates are downsizing the news departments and getting their news from wire services and other sources. Leonard Downie Jr. and Michael Schudson stated in their article The Reconstruction …

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Old News to New News

While technology takes over, the newspaper battles to stay in the running as a go to for our daily dish of news.  In today’s world, we have access to news almost anywhere at our fingertips.  Every newspaper has gone online, …

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The Relevance of Journalism in Today’s Society

In Overload! Journalism’s Battle for Relevance in an Age of Too Much Information, a new method of strategic planning took place.  When The Associated Press hired Context, a research company, to conduct a study of young-adult news consumption around …

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Filtration and Empathy – How Journalism Will Stay Relevant in the Future

There is a common, and important theme developing in many of the essays we read. This theme is given many names such as “overload,” “information pollution” or ” social narcissism,” but at it’s essence it all boils down to the …

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The “Interconnected Estate”, the Global Stage and You

Imagine a reporter’s job forty years ago: follow a lead, research the subject(s), interview pertinent people and deliver a story, all while hoping that the editor approves the story and that the audience finds the content interesting. Competition came from …

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News- helping or hurting?

It is hard to tell in today’s society whether our local and world news is serving our benefit or creating problems. Every time I turn on the television I hear about a murder, rape, and another everyday item that causes …

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Journalism dying out?

The Reconstruction of American Journalism

I feel like accountability journalism is vital and important to our society. Ignorance in this case should not be bliss. We as a community should and do have the right to know what is really …

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The Importance of Fact Checking

There are over 500 million Twitter users currently; thats over 500 million people generating over 340 million tweets and over 1.6 billion search queries daily; thats over 500 million people constantly posting information to a network of followers who re-post …

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Convergent media and the conflict between Israel and Hamas

Not surprisingly, the recent conflict between Israel and Gaza received a lot of attention in the media, through both journalistic sources and individual information and opinion sharing. The western media covered events in the Middle East as they unfolded, conducted …

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