How a busy college student reads news
After keeping track of my online news consumption habits for a few days, I realized how much news I actually consume in one day.
From the minute I wake up to the minute I go to sleep, I am viewing news on my iPhone and MacBook through notifications from The New York Times, Associated Press and The Buffalo News. Multiple times a day through these news apps I am getting notifications on breaking stories. Also, on social media apps, I scroll through my newsfeeds and am following various news organizations who constantly share articles of interest.
Most times when I get a notification on my iPhone, I read the headline and if it peaks my interest I will open the app to read the entire news article, or if I am uninterested, I will ignore the notification and go back to what I was doing.
Often times I am scrolling through Facebook or Twitter when I have downtime between classes and nothing else going on. I have realized the news I read is never outside of my comfort zone. I would not click on or read a sports story, but anything in the news section, I would click on and read in a heartbeat.
My favorite way to get news is through my Facebook. My friends and family on Facebook are always sharing news and discussing what is going on in the world. Facebook gives me a variety of news from The New York Times, NBC, CNN, and The Buffalo News, as well as some news from the Huffington Post, Buzz Feed, and even People magazine, which I click on when I am interested in a certain celebrity. I also find that I click on articles that I normally wouldn’t click on while on Facebook if a friend or family member shares it.
When I am at Oswego, I am rarely consuming news on TV. I don’t have cable off campus, so I rely on news consumption through my phone or computer. When I am at home in Buffalo, I am watching evening news with my parents, or sometimes morning news if I am awake early enough.
The only news site that I read each homepage almost every single day is The New York Times. I enjoy their news and the variety of articles they write. I do click on their articles via Twitter and Facebook, but I always make a point to check their homepage every morning or night to get accurate and unbiased reports of what is going on in the world today.
Consuming news is a huge part of my daily activities, especially because I want a career in writing news one day. I make a constant effort to incorporate news into my daily routine because in order to write news, I need to read news. Authors don’t write books without reading books, photographers don’t take pictures without viewing other photographer’s photos, and journalists can’t write news without reading news.