In The Eye Of A Fake News Hurricane
This particular photo was pulled from the Washington Post. The hilarity and fake news was supplied by the Internet. In early 2015, way before “fake news” became a buzz phrase and Donald Trump made his faithful descent on the escalator at Trump Tower, another event jostled the journalism world. Brian Williams, one of the most respected broadcast journalists in the field, turned out to be a fraud. My professor, KTLA’s John Cyrus Smith, led the class in a discussion on his fall
Still A Writer
An Annenberg classmate had a get-together last weekend in Downtown Los Angeles. She got a job as staffer for an exciting campaign out of state and invited some people to catch up at a bar before she left. I was in the area anyway, so I went early...and quickly realized that spending an hour alone at a bar isn’t very fun. So with an Old Fashioned in my hand, I turned to one of my biggest boredom-fighting habits; I pulled out my journal and began to write. I don’t go out much s
Sponsored By Viral Content: Thoughts on Chris Reinacher's YouTube Series
When I revived this blog, I promised myself to write something related to digital media at least once a week. But since I’m in the middle of job hunting, I decided to write another quick piece so that I won’t feel completely frustrated if I miss my self-imposed Wednesday deadline. A lot of my interviews involve me talking about content creation, so I figured it would be a great time to talk about Internet content, specifically creative YouTube content (journalism will, alas,
Leveraging the Instafamous
Instagram's influence on mainstream culture fascinated me ever since I visited its campus last year. According to the Pew Research Center, Instagram is the second-most used platform used in the U.S.. I'll admit that haven’t been active until recently. When I was a journalism student I saw Instagram as a way to promote one’s personal brand and to showcase photos. Promoting articles is difficult because links only work in the profile description. (The New York Times created a w
Onwards and Upwards
Hello Internet. It's been a while. It's been almost a year since I was last here, and a lot has happened since I've been away. There are a few reasons that I didn't keep up, I'll figure out how to explain it in a different post. Just know that my senior year was quite a roller coaster between home, school and work, and my obligations kept me from being able to produce my own content. But I'm back, and I'm sticking to things this time around. After a year of soul-searching and
The Shooting of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling
(Video via neighborhoodpaperboy on Youtube) It’s been two years since the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, with more people using technology to reach wider audience. The use of technology has been intrinsically part of the attention around the two shootings this week, and I think that’s something worth addressing. Watching The Media Cover Police Brutality In November 2014 I was on a team that covered the L.A. protests over the grand jury decision to not indict an office
