Journalism, Politics, and Social Media

Journalism today has transformed over the last two decades. Today, as a society, want information at our fingertips and unfortunately that leads to erroneous information being released. Traditional media no longer satisfies a society that requires instantaneous data – that sort of news requires time to objectively review the information and prepare it for reporting. This week we watched Katie Couric’s “Social Media and Real-Time Journalism Revolution”, and she claimed that in this world of social media and journalism that you either modify your methods or get left behind. She titled her generation the “sandwich” generation – not growing up with today’s technology but compelled to utilize it to remain prominent in today’s journalism.