Attention Deficit

Media Consumption habits first thoughts

Okay, before writing this first post I need to be honest. My final results are far from accurate. For me, it was really difficult to keep track of my media consumption habits. Why? Because I tend to check my Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts (almost…

A content strategy for lazy news consumers

Apparently I’m pretty lazy when it comes to consuming news. After following my consumption over two days, logging each interaction with content on a spreadsheet, I found that spreadsheet emptier than I’d like it to be.

The secret to success for news publishers lies in exemplary reporting

I am a voracious consumer of news. As a journalist, I follow the activity of professional news organizations and the journalists that comprise them. I track the thoughts and actions of politicians and business…

The World We Were Warned About

Sometimes, I have this dream where I’m on a train. I don’t know which train it is; maybe the D.C. metro, or one of the newer lines in NYC. But it’s crowded. When I look around me, I never see bodies, just faces. They have human features, sure, but they’re lifeless and gray…

Push It Real Good — How I Gave Away the Power to Choose What Is Important

First, let me come clean: I am a mother of two kids and a graduate student. These two identities define and limit my media habits more than anything else at this moment of time. If I didn’t have kids and…

Media Consumption Diary

Yuhuan HU (Shane)

I tracked my media consumption behavior between Jan 26th (Thursday) and Jan 27th (Friday) and here is an overview of my consumption behavior.