What this class has taught me

One thing I have studied and learned throughout the semester in the JMC 461 - Web Strategies course is the importance of social media in the journalism world today.  Social media allows news organizations and outlets to immediately get breaking news out to viewers.  I’ve also learned this could be a double-edged sword. While viewers are able to immediately learn about breaking news, news organizations also are in such a rush to report that sometimes false information is published and corrections have to be issued.  Also, the Internet has helped the media grow and reach more listeners/viewers/media consumers.  All of this knowledge relates to my hopeful profession of broadcast journalism because I would be able to use these forms of social media to push more traffic to my stories and links to the website for the news organization I’m working for.  A lot of this information was learned throughout the semester in class and was added to by the book I read for the book report, Blur.  Blur showed how journalism has changed with the advancements of technology and the creation of the 24-hour news cycle. Also, I was interested in how the book showed how stories were reported on back in the day versus how they would have been reported on now with the new technology. The book gave me a lot of information that will be beneficial to my career in the journalism field.