What platforms do you get your information from? Sounds like a simple question right? Then why did a guy talking about journalism trends stump an audience for a few minutes with it?
Randy Parker from the York Daily Record had a group of journalism students and professors staring at him throwing up traditional answers.
After a few minutes we broke away from simple stuff like newspapers and books and radio or TV. Eventually I mentioned Twitter and explained how I use it.
The basic list included a lot of things I use and the crowd didn’t seem to know much about including:
After we made this list I started thinking about how I use these things as a journalist. I’ve discovered that it keeps me up to date on new technologies like Vuvox. I’m basically getting more tools for storytelling, not actual sources or ideas.
Using platforms for more than new tools
What platforms do you get your information from? Sounds like a simple question right? Then why did a guy talking about journalism trends stump an audience for a few minutes with it?
Randy Parker from the York Daily Record had a group of journalism students and professors staring at him throwing up traditional answers.
After a few minutes we broke away from simple stuff like newspapers and books and radio or TV. Eventually I mentioned Twitter and explained how I use it.
The basic list included a lot of things I use and the crowd didn’t seem to know much about including:
After we made this list I started thinking about how I use these things as a journalist. I’ve discovered that it keeps me up to date on new technologies like Vuvox. I’m basically getting more tools for storytelling, not actual sources or ideas.
What am I doing wrong?