Week 4: Students Response to Discussion, Editing and News Story

Danielle Taylor

WednesdaySep 20 at 10:50am

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Digital media is now more popular than ever. You can get news at the tip of your fingers on the computer, your phone or tablet. There are so many news outlets that now write for web broadcasting as well. Some popular ones being CNN and MSNBC.

The five qualities of digital media that are like broadcast media are immediacy, flexibility, permanency, capacity, and interactivity. While exploring some of the websites I found that there is a lot of similarity between the two. Some of the news websites update their information just as current as if you were watching it on the news. The easiest thing about technology today is you can get your news from anywhere. There are apps on your phones and tablets like yahoo news or CNN.

“Immediate news on the Web has become an expectation of the audience, just as real-time events of importance are expected to appear on television” (Stovall 127). The only difference between television immediacy and web media is that web media is relied mostly on words. Whereas television media has actual video footage or pictures in their updates. Like cutting live to a reporter, for instance.

There are also many other ways news is spread through the web. Now that most social media platforms are popular, you can get your news anytime through there. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and more. News is everywhere.

Just like the characteristics of good writing that were in our book, “accuracy, clarity, efficiency, and precision” (Stovall 138) these are the same characteristics need for writing on the web. The web is a medium that isn’t taken lightly. People these days are always in a rush or a hurry so they turn to their cell phones for many updates in the news, weather, social media and much more.

Danielle Taylor

Reference

Stovall, James G. Writing for the Mass Media, 9th Edition. Pearson Learning Solutions, 2014-07-01. VitalBook file.

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