It’s easy to blame the internet and tech startups like Facebook and Google for the journalism crisis. The internet destroyed the old business model and tech startups stole the ad revenue that newspapers relied on to stay alive. It wasn’t the media industry’s fault — disruptors simply came into the market and took more than… Continue reading Tick Tock, Time to Innovate
When I tell people I am studying journalism, I am often met with surprise and sarcasm. In their eyes, the importance of journalism and media is fleeting – because, in their eyes, journalism is synonymous with “fake news” and social media. This only feeds my passion more, however, because I know that strong journalism is… Continue reading Media: A demand for on-demand
This past weekend, I watched the Super Bowl with a couple of work friends. Besides the Eagles swooping in with that well-deserved victory, Justin Timberlake put on a killer halftime performance. During Timberlake’s performance, he went into the stands and started singing with the crowd. And on national television, this boy gave a step by… Continue reading The Media and You: It’s a Two-Way Relationship
I don’t think it’s a surprise to anyone that most of the news people consume in our society is digital. The idea of digital everything is where our society has been moving toward for many years now. To heck with print newspapers, even my grandma gets Fox News alerts on her iPhone 7s plus. According to… Continue reading Digital Media Isn’t Going Away
Amazon may be trying to monopolize the material world, but it looks like Facebook is on track to take over the digital world. To my surprise, Google advertising revenue has dropped slightly for 2016 while Facebook’s has grown by 5% each year since 2015, according to the Pew Research Center’s report on the State of… Continue reading Facebook vs. The World and the Future of Media
I first heard of Vox in the summer of 2014 when my favorite television writer, Todd Vanderwerff, left The AV Club to become the Culture Editor at Vox. I read so much of his work that I have a link to Vanderwerff’s article page in my bookmarks. Early on, I read mostly the cultural news and… Continue reading Vox Leads a Technological, Educational Revolution
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