Welcome! And Tell Me About Your News Consumption
Welcome Young Scholars students! I'm looking forward to working with you in JOUR 150 this summer.
This blog will be used throughout your three weeks with me to start discussions about media coverage of events, changes in technology and practices in newsrooms, media hiring practices and ethical questions about publications' handling of news. The best posts will include some research and links to reported stories or primary documents. Remember to be thoughtful and tactful; this blog is open to the public for viewing.
Each of you must start at least one blog post; all of you must also comment on some of your classmates' posts. I'm hoping our class discussions and guest speakers will give you ideas for this.
To get you started, I'd like you to tell me in the comment area of this post where you typically go for news, what you like to read, listen to or watch for news, and how you get there. (For instance, do you read sports stories linked to friends' Facebook pages? Or do you religiously go to ESPN's home page several times a day to read about certain teams or sports?) Be specific!
This blog will be used throughout your three weeks with me to start discussions about media coverage of events, changes in technology and practices in newsrooms, media hiring practices and ethical questions about publications' handling of news. The best posts will include some research and links to reported stories or primary documents. Remember to be thoughtful and tactful; this blog is open to the public for viewing.
Each of you must start at least one blog post; all of you must also comment on some of your classmates' posts. I'm hoping our class discussions and guest speakers will give you ideas for this.
To get you started, I'd like you to tell me in the comment area of this post where you typically go for news, what you like to read, listen to or watch for news, and how you get there. (For instance, do you read sports stories linked to friends' Facebook pages? Or do you religiously go to ESPN's home page several times a day to read about certain teams or sports?) Be specific!
16 comments:
For news in general i usually watch the local news or nightly news on NBC for world news. But for sports i read the newspapers, online blogs, or watch ESPN, NBA TV, NFL Network, MLB Network and sometimes the GOLF channel.
For news on my phone and online, I go to The New York Times, BBC News, USA Today, or Buzzfeed News. I have the apps to these websites and usually get a bunch of notifications whenever something happens. When watching TV, I mostly watch NBC. I usually check the news daily, if not weekly, and try to read a full news story at least once a week.
I read the Personal Journal from the Wall Street Journal on most mornings. I also follow most of the major news feeds on Facebook and click on a story if it seems interesting. I get a lot of news from my dad as well, since he will send me articles throughout the day that he thinks I would like (or would make me laugh).
I am not a huge fan of death (as I hope most are). Therefore I tend to listen to the radio for news to avoid graphics you may see online or in a newspaper. Due to the election I recently downloaded the CNN app to my phone for news, however before that I looked to social media for news. For instance twitter, or the discover part of snapchat.
Most of the time, I get news from wherever I am or on the go. My parents almost always have the television on in the mornings, our local news station blaring about traffic or breaking news. On Facebook, it's not uncommon to see the recent happenings of the world. I liked a page about police shootings, which updates regularly and provides a link to a news article about the event. If I'm not on Facebook or watching TV, I often check news apps on my phone, such as The Washington Post and BBC News. Sports aren't in my interests at all, so I tend to stay away from sports broadcasts or sports news apps.
My mom is always up-to-date with the news, so if I hear about something that I have questions about, she's the person I go to.
Normally I look to Twitter for my source of news. I follow ESPN for my sports updates, Deray McKesson for social justice information, the New York Times, The Today Show, and CNN to get updates on what's not only happening locally or nationally but also worldwide. With Twitter being 140 characters and instantaneous on my feed, it makes it easy for me to go get quick short bites of news. I also listen the radio news, while I'm riding or driving in the car and watch the news when I'm at my grandma's or great aunt's house. When I look for news I'm looking for quick updates about whats going on in the world while also having some sort of multimedia accompany it.
CNN and BBC are the news applications I commonly visit to receive news. These news websites stay neutral when providing the news to the public. CNN and BBC are very diverse in reporting their news and that is one thing I love about visiting their websites. Health related news and local news stories are what I aim to look forward to reading. The articles BBC and CNN provide fit my interests and I feel like they are newsworthy sites.
I get my news from multiple places, all of which give completely different takes on the news. I often watch ESPN which is where I get most of my sports news. Additionally I read articles from Bleacher Report which is an online sports news website. For media and entertainment news I use the website reddit which provides a variety of different news topics and usually links to other websites. For political news I use CNN Student News and also the website The Onion which does satirical news.
I get a lot of my news online. I am regularly checking out ESPN.com, but a lot of the sports updates I can see on Twitter. Sports writers usually post the links to their articles on social media, so I have read from hundreds of different websites. In terms of current events, I usually read the newspaper like The New York Post or The Bergen Record, but most of the time, I find articles that catch my eye on Google or Facebook. Almost everything published on paper can be found online so most of my reading is on the computer.
I watch news, also. For current events, I usually watch Fox News or anything else that I see when I run through channels. For sports coverage, I watch ESPN. This is a social media age, so breaking news can always be found on Twitter or Facebook.
Hey! I have a lot of different ways to get and read news. My family has a paper delivered to the house in the mornings so if I have some time I will generally skim that looking for stories that are interesting. I usually read the front page stuff but my favorite section is the sports section I also like the metro section because it's more about the community I live in. I read a lot of sports related news, and most of that comes from what is in the newspaper or what is on twitter. I follow a lot of sports news accounts like ESPN, and their commentators, writers, or even their different shows like sport center and sports nation. A lot of the time they'll post a small blurb of the story and include the link to the full story, so if it interests me I will go and read the complete story. I read news stories online sometimes if the story catches my eye, but I don't usually go online looking for news, unless I'm doing research or someone mentions something, or I see something that interests me.
I read news on my phone from the CNN and NPR apps. I also scan the Washington Post app as well now. :) I also watch CNN on TV, but that channel gets on my nerves sometimes, so I prefer to watch ABC World News in the evenings. When I check my Yahoo! email, I tend to scan those posted stories as well. I also listen to WTOP on the radio in the car quite often. I like to read anything that has to do with animals, foreign countries, the environment, books, health, and sometimes politics, depending on my mood.
I check Yahoo's home page to get a quick view of what is going on in the world. If I see something interesting or local, I click on the article and read it. I usually read news stories that involve something really dangerous or someone that I have heard of constantly (politicians, celebrities, etc.). If I do not receive enough information from the Yahoo article, or if I have a specific topic in mind, then I will search for articles on the Washington Post or the New York Times.
I spend a lot of time on the internet so that is a huge source of where i get my news from. Social network sites such as Instagram and Facebook bring plenty of interesting topics to me that i might later look further into on google. Youtube is also another great outlet for news although many self proclaimed "reporters" give out false, biased secondary information . But, one trusted social media news coverage i often use is Buzzfeed mainly because of it's diversity and humorous articles written by younger people. Lately I have been more interested in politics because of my apprehension of voting for the wrong person this upcoming election so I try to read some articles about the candidates on cnn.com. Some radio stations i listen to a mainly 93.9 and 95.5 but these stations rarely report on anything other than celebrity gossip which i have no intrest in learning about. All-in-all I am improving on my ignorance on current events the older I get because it is very essential to my life.
For news, I tend to scroll through my Facebook, the discover part of Snapchat, and other social media to hear about what's going on in the world. My computer browser at home is set to yahoo, so I usually scroll through the featured stories they have there. My parents are former New Yorkers and remain loyal to the New York Times, and subscribe to that. I glance at the headlines and skim the articles that peak my interest. In addition, my family receives local newspapers. While I have the Washington Post app, I do not frequently utilize it. I assume that will be changing now!
-Atara Kahn
I typically get my news from print newspapers and online. I have the Washington Post delivered to my house and I flip through and read anything that grabs my attention. Usually articles in the A section, Metro, or Sports sections hold my interest. In the car, my dad likes to listen to NPR where I get to listen to more in-depth stories. I prefer this over the newspaper because the stories are usually more feature-oriented and interesting, rather than the breaking news shorts on TV. To get the most up to date news I watch TV and go online. My family subscribes to the New York Times and Washington Post online and I usually will read while eating breakfast. I like to watch the videos and look at articles with pictures/graphics. I'm not too fond of the long articles with lots of words, but if it's on a topic that interests me I'll try to read all the way through.
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