Modern Journalism Infographic

The PEW research center had a competition of sorts to display the data from the modern news study. Here is the winning one. This is a cool way to demonstrate the analysis I had posted a while back in a new way.

Read More

Still No Scholarships

I posted a while back about looking for scholarship opprotunities for people my age. It seems like all of the ones readily availible are either for higschoolers entering college or college students entering the job market. I did find one website that offered scholorships for highschoolers but ut seems that the website hasn't been updated in almost a year. There is probably something out there and I will continue to keep an eye out but the outcome is looking pretty bleak.

Read More

The Future Of Mobile News

The Future Of Modern News

I can really relate to this article because, like the majority of americans, I am basically attached at the hip to my various moble devises. Falling into the 50% that own both a tablet and smartphone, I am hardpressed to find remember times during my day when I'm not on one or the other. The influx of technology in my life has really had almost all positive effects. I am able to take in more information, faster, than ever before. Adressing the problem of users mostly utilizing these features at home, I'm just to scared to go over the mobile data limit to use my phone constantly. But thats only attributed to verizon forcibly taking away my unlimited data.

In summary this study says:

• The advent of the new lower-priced tablets in late 2011 brought in a new crop of tablet owners. 

• Rather than replacing old technology, the introduction of new devices and formats is creating a new kind of "multi-platform" news consumer.

• There is growing evidence that mobile devices are adding to how much news people get. 

• People who get news on both a smartphone and a tablet may carry added appeal for news organizations. 

• Similarly, those who get news throughout the day on their mobile devices are more engaged news consumers

• Two distinct news audiences have emerged on tablets-new-found digital customers and customers who also remain loyal to the print product.

• People notice ads on mobile devices and may be even more likely to click on them than they are to click on other digital ads. There has been movement over the last year toward using the browser rather than apps for tablet news consumption. 

Read More

Pew Project For Excellence in Journalism

The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism

I have recently stumbled upon The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. It seems to be an organization thats main focus is "trying to understand the information revolution." Their goals seem to be very similar to mine. A paragraph from their overview section states

 "Our goal is to help both the journalists who produce the news and the citizens who consume it develop a better understanding of what the press is delivering, how the media are changing, and what forces are shaping those changes. We have emphasized empirical research in the belief that quantifying what is occurring in the press, rather than merely offering criticism, is a better approach to understanding."

Their views are, as close as possible, nonpartisan. PEW also conducts a lot of studies and writes articles discussing the state of modern news.

I will definitely be posting some of the thinks I find there on here because they have done some great work. 

Read More

Scholarships?

After hearing about someone in this class who was looking into scholarships regarding their topic I decided to see what I could find regarding journalism. There are tons of opprotunities availible but the majority (all) of them are spscifically for upperclassmen, and college students. I have found a couple that could be related to me but Im not sure if much will come out of it. Nevertheless I am looking more into it and maybe, if im lucky, something good will happen.

Read More

Contact Progress

I just sent out an email to a new bunch of journalism experts. This time I focused on contacting professors (and assistant, assosiate, knight, managing professors if thats any different) from Northwestern. Someone told me the Medill section of Northwestern was a very good journalism school, so I decided to check it out. The faculty seems to be quite esteemed. My hopes of them contacting me back arent too high. Last time only one person actually answered me but I'm pretty excited to see what will happen. I will continue to look for more people to contact and interview in the future.

Read More