By Ashley Gibbard I am really glad we got to read Paul Graham’s blog post ‘How to Find Startup Ideas’ before our assignment that is due this week because this article completely changed my way of thinking. Whenever I think of creating something, I just think about the product, how it will look, the best way to… Continue reading Innovation and Startup Ideas

By Liam Tiernan The Pew Research Center’s Journalism and Media sector identified a 7 percent fall in newspaper circulation and a 5 percent loss in late night viewership in local news programs. Online subscription revenues have failed to pick up the slack for most newspapers, and advertising revenues fell 8 percent. It was the worst year for… Continue reading Pew: Newspapers circulation down, Television

By Savannah Swix I will admit – I don’t read the newspaper and probably the only time you will see me watching the news on television is if I am sitting with my mother in our living room on a weekday morning. However, I see the day’s biggest headlines, check out links to news stories and watch… Continue reading Entering and Advancing the Digital News Age

By Jazzy Teen Reading a black and white newspaper or patiently waiting for the six o’clock news seems to be archaic rituals of the past as we live our technologically savvy lives through the ease of our cell phones. Traditional media sources – newspapers, magazines, radio, television – are all struggling to captivate their audiences… Continue reading Local TV News: Stable enough to last

The State of News Media 2016 by the Pew Research Center confirmed a lot of my assumptions as they relate to modern news media. Basing these assumptions only on the observations of my own personal habits, my peers habits and the habits of my and my peers’ families, I am unsurprised by the majority of the… Continue reading Newsprint Down, Podcasting Up

By Austin Short Podcasting is something I recently have become infatuated with. It is awesome to have audio of your favorite shows pre-downloaded and ready to listen to whenever you like. I regularly listen to The Dan LeBatard Show with Stugotz, which is an ESPN radio show that is available as a podcast. A more… Continue reading Podcasting is becoming more popular slowly but surely

By Brittanie Chludzinski  I’m sure any journalism student can relate when I say this: I’ve heard my fair share of negative outlooks on the industry from friends, family and even professors throughout the last four years. “Journalism is a shrinking industry.” “Are you sure you want to take that route? It might be difficult to… Continue reading Print journalism is shrinking as digital gains strength

By Xinyi Xie From the News Media 2016 report by Pew Research Center State, we could easily find that digital media plays an important role in the marketing while the traditional newspaper field lose their 7% audience trends annually. Under the great recession of the U.S. newspaper industry, most traditional media are working on digital… Continue reading Besides news, traditional media could also do…