Coddinton is a graduate student and former journalist who is currently working toward a master's degree in the research and theory program at the University of Texas School of Journalism. Although he is no longer a journalist, he is able to engage users through years of experience writing about government, education, crime, people, energy and just about every other aspect of news. He has a wealth of knowledge to draw from.
His blog is a site used to engage in the conversation surrounding the sea of changes going on with the media and the news ecosystem. With his current studies he is trying to better understand what the changes in thee way humans communicate and the way we gather information mean for the future.
I just commented on the blog Professor Wachanga presented in class:
Six themes from ISOJ
Here is the comment I made:
I’m in agreement on the first bullet point you brought up. Twitter is not meant to be something where journalists just use the site as a portal to their newspaper’s online website. You hit the nail right on the head when you said that journalists should be engaging their readers instead of leading them elsewhere to find a story. The story they are looking for should be on Twitter. Creating a conversation on that website is important for the retaining of readers. I also found an interesting example relating to your point from another journalist:
Journalists should be engaging their readers instead of leading them elsewhere but at the same time, social media is a great tool to help relate to readers. As of now, there are 106 million total users of Twitter. I think that not using social media would be unwise of journalists.
ReplyDeleteWell I'm not supporting not using Twitter at all to post stories. I'm saying that a newspaper should be using social media for both the engaging of viewers and as a portal to their online website. I agree, not using Twitter would be extremely unwise.
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