Holla!
Back from Melbourne, classes resumed. Once again - Purpose! Instead of just stoning around, trying to look as much as i can being an inanimate Rock. Melbourne was great fun! Hop over to www.minicoops.blogspot.com for pictures! (because im lazy to upload the same set of photos here)
aaanyway, this being the last semester before i get that piece of paper that makes me eligible to print money, i really really want it to be as smooth as possible. However, at the same time i know this is perhaps the last chance i get at honing my "working skillz" so i want to challenge myself by stepping out of my academic comfort zone.
Which means enrolling into subjects that are not "comfortable", as in "hard". But theres a twist to that... Like aforementioned, this is my last semester, failing any subjects now = faildegree = wtf.
Anyhoo, i did infact enroll into some hardsauce subjects. one of them is Convergent Journalism, which is really what all journalism, especially in the news reporting business is about.
News of ages past means a bloc of text in some textual medium, ie. newspapers. With the advent of sub-recent technology, we now have television, radio and internet news (by all means not exhaustive). So, Convergent Journalism is really the "converging" of all these news mediums into one.
Present day news, almost all of them now feature videos, or some sort of electronic, technology assisted material. This subject aims at training students like myself to utilize all these different tools when presenting a news story. like, 1st writing an article (perhaps one of the most archaic form of news media), then flowering it up with videos. These videos can be interviews, featurettes or presentations. Other forms of technology medium can also be used, such as radio, or as already said above- the intohnut.
I mean, all these things are pretty easy to work with id imagine. The hardest part is, in my opinion, the news story itself.
Ask yourself this, whenever you read a paper in the morning, or at any time of day really, how often do you ask yourself when reading any given article this question :-
"Is this news worthy?"
Sure you want to know about the earthquake that hit New Zealand yesterday, or when Michael Jackson passed away, but do you really want to know how many calories are there in your caesar salad? or maybe some vehicular accident that took place several states away from where youre staying , or would possibly go? Or maybe that rapist who finally got convicted of his/her crimes after 10 years of crown litigation?
That is the question.
aaanyway, this being the last semester before i get that piece of paper that makes me eligible to print money, i really really want it to be as smooth as possible. However, at the same time i know this is perhaps the last chance i get at honing my "working skillz" so i want to challenge myself by stepping out of my academic comfort zone.
Which means enrolling into subjects that are not "comfortable", as in "hard". But theres a twist to that... Like aforementioned, this is my last semester, failing any subjects now = faildegree = wtf.
Anyhoo, i did infact enroll into some hardsauce subjects. one of them is Convergent Journalism, which is really what all journalism, especially in the news reporting business is about.
News of ages past means a bloc of text in some textual medium, ie. newspapers. With the advent of sub-recent technology, we now have television, radio and internet news (by all means not exhaustive). So, Convergent Journalism is really the "converging" of all these news mediums into one.
Present day news, almost all of them now feature videos, or some sort of electronic, technology assisted material. This subject aims at training students like myself to utilize all these different tools when presenting a news story. like, 1st writing an article (perhaps one of the most archaic form of news media), then flowering it up with videos. These videos can be interviews, featurettes or presentations. Other forms of technology medium can also be used, such as radio, or as already said above- the intohnut.
I mean, all these things are pretty easy to work with id imagine. The hardest part is, in my opinion, the news story itself.
Ask yourself this, whenever you read a paper in the morning, or at any time of day really, how often do you ask yourself when reading any given article this question :-
"Is this news worthy?"
Sure you want to know about the earthquake that hit New Zealand yesterday, or when Michael Jackson passed away, but do you really want to know how many calories are there in your caesar salad? or maybe some vehicular accident that took place several states away from where youre staying , or would possibly go? Or maybe that rapist who finally got convicted of his/her crimes after 10 years of crown litigation?
That is the question.
posted by Killl_Roy at 7:41 AM
2 Comments:
I ask myself that question a lot of times everyday.
Our politicians' squabble, it gets really boring after awhile. I much rather watch schoolkids argue. But yet, the newspapers insist on posting it up. And lots of it too, mind you.
But in any case, study hard and good luck! I hope to see you in November :D
Yeah, I bet some bunch of newsguy driving their satellite news van went to Jakarta and using their news-explosive to bomb Ritz-Charlton and JWM in Jakarta hmph23
AHH, theres something to write on the frontpage of their newspaper.
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