Media in Transition

Newspapers, Magazines: Extra Extra….Read all about it!

Radio

TV

Walter Cronkite

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=2792591n

Get news wherever, whenever, however

PR vs Journalism

Public relations is:

Creating understanding for or goodwill toward a

company, person, product

Journalism is….

• the practice of investigating and reporting events, issues and trends to the mass audiences of print, broadcast and online media such as newspapers, magazines and books, radio and television stations and networks, and blogs and social and mobile media.

Case Study: Beyonce-gate

Who broke the news?

Who can you

trust?

Case Study: President Obama and Gun Control

Don’t believe everything you read, see or hear!

Be a smart media consumer!

No class Tuesday February 12