Tyson Sprick
Flash journalism is only going to be more widespread in the years to come. The current amount of interactive graphics and features on the web would have been unthinkable even five years ago. Any major news site has a multitude of photo slideshows, audio, video, and rollover graphics. Some may see the new gadgets as distractions, which is a fair judgment after looking at some sites. Mostly though, I think the technology only enhances the reader's news gathering experience.
I like how we are getting to a point in which all the mediums are combined into one, complete news source. Instead of just watching the nightly news and reading the newspaper in the morning, consumers can now get on the internet and experience the same story in a variety of different ways. Personally, I still like my tangible morning newspaper like a lot of the older crowd, but the Internet just brings it all together for me.
Programs such as Flash are an integral piece in this convergence process, as we learned last week in class by making an audio slideshow and rollover graphic. It gives the reader more than a newspaper can offer, and more news provides the people with a better understanding of what is going on. And that's our job.
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