Chapter Reading Homework

There are several types of audiences who are news consumers, traditionalists, integrators, net-newsers and the disengaged. These different types of news consumers make up 96 percent of the U.S. public. Also, over the last couple of years these groups have grown to distrust the media and its information.

There are four major communication forms, test, video and audio, the web and mobile devices. Many news outlets are now synchronizing their media coverage to be published in many different mediums.

Citizens are now taking a role in gathering public news. Non-journalists gathering the news and reporting breaking news stories because they have access to the internet is hurting other mainstream media outlets from being the first to report breaking news stories.

As great as having non-journalists or citizen journalists gather and give news reports it creates problems. False reports can be made and can cause major issues in the world because when an article is posted on the internet many believe it to be true even if the reporter has not verified their information yet.

Today in journalism there are more jobs to found. More journalists than ever are being hired for online news reporting companies and daily newspapers employ thousands of journalists. Fewer jobs are being offered for television but it is still a profitable market.

The overall main tone of the chapter was about how journalism today is changing. The day of newspapers and one source of news media is changing rapidly. One common theme is the ability for a journalist to adapt to the changing times. Once a journalist is unable to change he or she will be unable to be employed in the ever changing word of media.