Jessica
JRN 201 – Section #14582
Feb. 22, 2016
Honors Blog Post VI
The Medium is the Message
As I mentioned in the post prior, regardless of the medium a reporter uses, the goal is the same, thus linking all forms of news reporting together regardless of the media it uses.
However, a change in media, comes with the need for changes in format.
Once again, the New York Film Academy points out that news writing focuses more on formatting and AP Style, while TV news tends to focus more on simple ideas and sentences.
I feel that content is highly dependent on the media in which it is spread. This is due to the fact that varying media brings in different demographics. This can be seen in the tendency for teens to follow online publications versus print news.
One must also consider and apply the "ideal circumstances" for their selected medium, as Irving Fang, journalism professor at the University of Minnesota, pointed out.
For example, the reporter, if using radio broadcasting, must use a process similar to the inverted pyramid. In that, they select the order of a segment based on length and interest levels.
Fang notes that "The eye can go back; the ear can go only forward
with the voice of the newscaster."
Therefore the delivery system of the news changes with the medium used, to provide the best form of news reporting to a listener or reader at the time.
Jessica
JRN 201 – Section #14582
Feb. 22, 2016
Honors Blog Post VI
The Medium is the Message
As I mentioned in the post prior, regardless of the medium a reporter uses, the goal is the same, thus linking all forms of news reporting together regardless of the media it uses.
However, a change in media, comes with the need for changes in format.
Once again, the New York Film Academy points out that news writing focuses more on formatting and AP Style, while TV news tends to focus more on simple ideas and sentences.
I feel that content is highly dependent on the media in which it is spread. This is due to the fact that varying media brings in different demographics. This can be seen in the tendency for teens to follow online publications versus print news.
One must also consider and apply the "ideal circumstances" for their selected medium, as Irving Fang, journalism professor at the University of Minnesota, pointed out.
For example, the reporter, if using radio broadcasting, must use a process similar to the inverted pyramid. In that, they select the order of a segment based on length and interest levels.
Fang notes that "The eye can go back; the ear can go only forward with the voice of the newscaster."
Therefore the delivery system of the news changes with the medium used, to provide the best form of news reporting to a listener or reader at the time.
