1.27.10

1. http://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/california_watch_launches_open.php
A. The world is journalism is changing, evolving. The once brash and blustering news room, full of people and key boards has developed into an office without walls, where you can ( and are expected to ) go as far as your wifi will take you. This "Open news room" creates a relationship between the journalist and the subject that is new to the world of journalism. The new concept that a "‘newsroom’ need not be a place so much as a process—and a space both for journalists and the public they serve." is changing the way writers will write stories, and the way audiences will receive information.

B. Journalism is forced to evolve as fast as any science with new technologies. With the advancements in social media, such as twitter, facebook and blogging, information is only relevant the minute it happens, if you are thirty seconds too late someone is already covering it. The attempt to spend more time in "open newsrooms" will bring a voice to those whose words would remain otherwise unspoken. The hyperlocalazation of the newsroom brings a voice to the individual and breaks down the barrier between a newsroom and the real world.

C. From this I can learn the need to spend time in the world, outside of Spori 114, gleaning information from the world around me, not just drawing conclusions on my own. The new world of journalism reflects a certain ambiguity that is familiar in the online community, and has the potential to reach into the future ( as it has the past) and have a really effect on what is to come, however, as a journalist it is essential to be willing to move forward in the direction of finding news, finding the story in anything and bringing to life


2. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/books/29salinger.html?scp=1&sq=jan%2029,%202010&st=cse

So JD Salinger died. CHARLES McGRATH, the writer who covered this story for the new york times does a beautiful job of telling Salingers story. I love to read anything by him because every time I do I remember that a journalist is first and foremost a writer, and the English language is a tool, not unlike a paintbrush, that can be manipulated in any direction, but in this instance is operated for the purpose of telling true stories. McGrath goes on to summarize Salingers life is such a way that I am completely drawn into his story and my first thoughts are of googling Salinger to learn more about him, I believe that as a journalist if your readers want to go out and learn more or are inspired to change, you have been successful.