Future of Newspapers

In the articles I have read and seen and the presentations I have listened to, I have come to a conclusion that newspapers are coming to a slow end and "technology journalism" is so in! For the first time in class I am agreeing on something. I for the most part my self read newspaper websites off my phone, or magazine websites off my phone. My phone is the main thing I go to, to look at journalism. (In some small way that is a little scary & sad.)

I almost don't want the newspaper to go away because sometimes I do read it, and I feel so old school and vintage when I do- I like that feeling. Whenever someone reads the newspaper I think it is so fun because it is such a old age thing we think about. We now have apps, magazines, and magazine type of newspapers that we go to for news now and so with that I think in time, the real paper newspaper that you get on Sundays or every single, and read with your morning coffee will be gone. Reporting I think will be more personal though and straight to the point it seems people are not interested in the long and short of an article, they like, "here are the facts and here's what's happening" kind of a story.

During the preparation of this project I felt like I didn't have much to do, I wanted to go a little deeper in the idea, but nobody seemed that interested. The concept though I love because I love women, I am proud to be a women and I love talking to women and talking about women. We are very interesting creatures, but complicated too. Taylor in my group put the idea out for an all women's magazine, then I came up with the name; First-Wave Females.

Something I would differently in my group would be a little more in "their face" about what is going on because with feeling like I had nothing to or I wasn't making anything I felt a little lost in the process. I did help come up with ideas and such, typed them down for us, but nothing like creating the cover page. With the cover page I thought we could of done better and I know how to "work" InDesign, but I didn't want to start anything like drama.

I would defiantly use the idea of an all women's magazine or app again because I just love that idea, and again I love women and talking with and about women. In future or even now women would like this because in the world we live in today it's hard for us. We are put up as objects and things to many and in the workplace we are stilled paid less then men. So, the appeal for women is totally there.

What is Journalism Anyway?

    Journalism is hard to define, anyone can say that. When trying to think of what it is nowadays you have so many definitions spitting out at you that you are frazzled and you can't really find a clear answer. All I can do is write, read, and accept what I think is journalism. Sometimes that means not everybody is going to agree with my perspective and personal view on journalism.

    I used to think of journalists as those people from the early 1900's to the 1960's with the professional suit, the popular press hat, little notepad, short little pencil, with the cigarette in the mouth. In movies the journalists are always in groups shouting the same questions or different ones at the same time and if they don't get their answer, what do they do? They lie. They make a headline that has everyone buzzing in town and the character who has this made up story about them in the papers is furious and it all connects with the storyline- for the movie. (In many ways Hollywood has influenced how people think of journalism today.)

    Never though did I think journalism was all about just making up stories. Journalism can be informative, it can also be a story from the journalists perspective (I think). The general definition of journalism is the activity or profession of writing for newspapers, magazines, or broadcasting news on the radio or television. Most of the time though we are so critical of people's writing especially when we form an opinion, but Robert Niles on his website says that publishing your opinion on whatever it is you are, is an okay thing to do.

    On this What is Journalism? website that puts you right to sleep, it never mentions anything about an opinion only about news and feature stories, and the tools of journalism. If you think about it though, who wants to read a stale and bias story, but I may not always agree with the writer and I may get mad or frustrated with the writer even if we are not engaged in a conversation. So, it comes to now is forming your opinion journalism... can you?

    For so long we have been hearing that journalism has nothing to do with bias, but journalists do it anyway. Anywhere you read you read, you read some form of bias, but we need to be loyal in our writing. We have a duty to tell the truth, Loyalty+Unbias=journalism. It's hard though! Super hard to make unbias and telling the truth come together because if we don't agree with what we are writing then why are we writing it? We got assigned it, we couldn't think of anything else... the list of excuses goes on.

    Like I said before I can only accepted what I think is journalism. We are all going to have opinions on what journalism is, and we could have days and days of discussion on it because it's sadly one of those things in our world today that gets influenced by people. People can think the paparazzi are doing journalism by stalking celebrities when really it isn't, that's just annoying probably.