The Business of News

To Save Journalism, We Have To Fix Advertising

This Saturday afternoon, I was on Facebook, and I noticed that Stephen Colbert was “trending.” I was a big fan of “The Colbert Report,” but have admittedly never seen a full episode of Colbert’s “The Late Show,” possibly because, for whatever…

Musing on Media

The news and articles have got me tied down. Sure, I love reading about what’s happening. And I’m a journalist; it’s necessary to stay informed. But I’ve realized that my eyes are much bigger than my stomach when it comes to this.

I belong to the somewhat odd, yet fortunate generation that was born right after Generation X and just before Millennials: the late 1970s to early 1980s births. At times, my generation is referred to as Generation Y, but most of the time, it is carelessly combined with Millennials. But the major identifier that separates my generation from…

User Habits Create Change Within the Media Industry

My day often begins, as does many others, with beams of light streaming from my smartphone brightly onto my face. Usually in an effort to delay the obligations of the day, I skim through my smartphone for pressing news.

Madeline’s Modern Media Memorandum

In Friday’s class, Professor Gabe Kahn said, “Technology rips apart the ‘bundle’ concept.” Upon looking at my media diary from Monday and Tuesday’s assignment, I found this statement to ring true: almost all of my media attention was divided into individualized…

My media consumption

After recording my media consumption over a two-day period for a graduate school assignment, I learned that like most…

Old Habits Die Hard

When I was young, my parents subscribed to the Tuscaloosa News, a daily broadsheet publication in my hometown in Alabama. We were also the rare Southern family who received the Sunday New York Times, which I didn’t like because there was no “funnies” section. We watched the NBC nightly news…

To Be in the News, You Must be in Touch With the News

Like the forty or so other aspiring journalists in this class, I began tracking my media consumption for 48 hours beginning on Martin Luther King Day. By doing so, I realized that I consume a lot more media than I thought I did, even on…

Detoxing and Retoxing with Quality Content

Having one foot in the new world and the other foot in yesteryear is an interesting schism, especially in regards to my media consumption. I am a voracious reader and at any given time, you can find at least four or five tabs open on my web browser with…