Blog Reporting 3 First Assignment

After reading both Rick Reilly's and Nate Silver's speeches, one thing is for certain: media is changing quicker than a runway model.

Silver said that new-age media organizations are having to do more with less. This means that reporters are being asked not only to write stories; but also blog about events, shoot photo and chirp more tweets than a morning bird.

All for the sake of a decrease in employees and money-- but definitely an increase on cyber-friend potential.

Silver also said don't be cynical...

Moving on. Reilly to the same level, agrees that the media industry is going through gigantic, enormous changes. However, Reilly said that these other parts of media still do not surpass the job of a real journalist. He said we still need journalists to track down leads and actually talk to people-- contrary to the "follow me" on Twitter, in an attempt for journalists to get all their information. He said that no matter where digital media goes, these principles will always be held to the highest degree.

While Silver agrees with this point at the surface, he said that today's journalists need to be entrepreneurial. This means that journalists need to learn how to do other things, besides just writing for big industries. These other things, like blogging and tweeting will be big factors in journalist's futures, as their career progresses.

In the end, one thing is for certain; media is in a constant change. On one hand, journalists need to remember the basic principles that makes them a journalists including: writing stories, interviewing, etc. However, journalists today, and in the future, must know how to intertwine these skills with the aspects of the digital-age media.

So now that I'm done with blogging, I guess I'll go tweet, shoot some photo, eat dinner, do video, and update my Facebook status-- on my smart phone of course. All in attempt to get a good grade on my first assignment in Reporting 3.