Just out of personal interest I then deceided to interview my 10 year old sister. She didn't quite understand most of the questions as she was playing her brand new portable gaming console. This cost $650. She is 10. Let me pose this question again, technology, help of hindrance?
Speech Files
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Q. Organise to interview two individuals. Technology - help or hindrance?
Just out of personal interest I then deceided to interview my 10 year old sister. She didn't quite understand most of the questions as she was playing her brand new portable gaming console. This cost $650. She is 10. Let me pose this question again, technology, help of hindrance?
Post 5 - Roles in digital media
- TV commercials
- Billboards
- Posters
- Pictures in newspapers and magazines
- Website ads
- Infomercials
Post 4 - Roles in electronic media.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Post 3 - Roles in print media.
- Magazines
- Newspapers
- Websites
- Books
- Film, music and TV reviews
- Advice columns etc.
2. An editor is referred to as one who edits and corrects the product before final release. To acquire a skill in editing you are required to be familiar with fields such as creative skills, human relations and obtaining an accurate set of methods.
There are many different levels of editing which link the entire practice together. The author of the original piece is also a tight requirement in the equation. The levels which develop the complete workload include:
- Junior editorial assistant
- Senior editorial staff
- Senior executive staff
The senior executive staff are the one who end up having the final say in the end result of the piece right before publication.
3. Newspaper journalism entails researching and constructing stories which relate to recent local events which hold significance towards the people of the community. This work is printed daily and submitted to the public, available to purchase. Newspaper journalists cover a whole range of different topics and learn to write in many forms and styles. They have a major role in print media because a newspaper appears to be top of the many products that has been produced in terms of print media. A newspaper journalist could also fall into the categories explained above as you are able to be positioned as a columnist or an editor for a company which produced newspapers. Eg. Sun Herald, Sunday Telegraph, Illawarra Mercury etc.
To be a Columnist...

"I do so hope Bindi Irwin gets laid"

Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Post 2 - Emerging technologies
The use of technology benefits each individual in their own unique way. Whether it be used in our homes, for educational purposes, in the workplace or just socially, the ever growing product line that technology has produced influences our everyday lives.
During the process of traditional news gathering, journalists use different methods and apply unique procedures in order to collect the appropriate data to use in their work. This technology could range from one journalist meeting pen to paper, right up to another carrying around a recently emerged touch screen hand held gadget where they store all their notes and critical information.
Emerging technologies provide today's journalist with easy and time efficient devices to guide them in a suitable direction to make their job a little easier. This help could range from the simple use of a mobile phone to communicate with information sources to a wide network of computers which may hold the secret quote to prove their article truthful and yet this is only a fraction of the ways emerging technology has transformed journalism overtime.
Post 1 - News Media Industry
Journalism is defined as the reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience associated with varied content.
The work produced by the industry can be the result of an article published in your favourite magazine, the dialogue presented in a teen-crazed soap opera or even the images produced when you secretly google "Justin Bieber" on the school computers to feed your sick fetish.
The News Media Industry effects our everyday life without us recognising it as something necessarily important. This is why today, the industry has evolved into such a critical aspect towards the lives of many and even though many may disagree when I state this, plays a larger role in our lives then we have initially assumed.