Social Media Voice

As a journalist, you would expect me to have my favorite journalist, but the funny thing is there is not one journalist that I like on Facebook or Twitter. I even tried searching some online to just make up how I like them, but that would be lying and I do not want to do that on here. The truth is, I don’t follow journalists, I follow news stations and newspapers. I see their reporters pop up on their pages and I will like their posts here and there but as a whole no one speaks to me. As a journalist on Twitter, not Facebook yet, I am still learning how to be one online. I know I have to put stories up and be professional when it comes to how much I put up that doesn’t have to do with the news. I follow tons of celebrities online, and I love how they tweet. They get my attention. But when I am on my professional account and I see the retweets that WCAX and WFSB do of their reporters I just scroll by because it doesn’t phase me.

Now what I do not like is when reporters only tweet or post about news information, and maybe that is why I follow celebrities and not journalists. I hate to just see consent news all day.

I want to see what their interests are and what they are doing and how their lives are going because they are humans just like me. When it comes to celebrities they tweet about concerts and new albums or movies or professional things going on in their lives but then they can retweet a picture or video about working out or about food, really anything.

When I look up journalists all I see on their pages are just news. I want to report on the news for a living but I have my personal Facebook and Twitter so I can get away from it as well. Maybe I am not looking in the right states or stations for the reporters I like but from where I have looked I have seen only reporters that go on and on about news and nothing else.

I tried to google myself, both my professional name and my birth name, and nothing came up. Although there is an amazingly pretty reporter under the name Julia Rose in Kentucky. I have a lot of my social media sites on private and I do not have too many followers because I try to only have people I know follow me. So maybe because of my small following it hinders me from finding myself. I don’t mind, because one day I hope to have a blue check next to my name on everything but until then I do not mind being unknown.

I know that this blog was to find two reporters, one I didn’t like and another I did, but there isn’t anyone I really like so instead of lying and trying to b.s. the assignment I am going to be honest. Honesty is the best policy.