Samantha Liss
Considering the new age of mass information, I agree with Jane Stevens and her attempt to be a multimedia journalist. Stevens seeks to compile everything from video to words to tell a compelling story.
Journalists today are entrapped to convey the news in a specific format and are quite frankly numbing viewers and hindering the next batch of journalists. Journalists need to pull away from this old age journalism to reverse the stagnate growth.
Up and coming journalists should start telling stories in more creative ways and leave behind the old methods.
As for the second reading, I think Martha Stone completely underestimates the rising generation of journalists. Most of our generation knows the basic uses of multimedia and with a little direction could successfully relay multimedia stories. I maybe naïve in thinking this, but our generation pretty much grew up on technology, so I don’t think it’s anything we all couldn’t learn to do well.
I can understand her point, but to her generation it may seem like rocket science but for us it’s almost second hand. I think that it’s up to the journalists to change this apathetic nation into caring about real issues and the only way to do that is to create comprehensive stories that are compelling for everyone.
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