The Life of Halle Anderson

Media is probably the most relied on source for news in todays world. When I was younger Facebook was the number one social site used. Facebook originally started off for college and young adults but younger people as in early teens took over the site.  Facebook became a common social website for many teens during this time. As time went on other social networks started becoming more popular, leaving Facebook to the older users.  Instagram and twitter became the next big things. Present day Facebook seems to be making a turn around because of its new features added. News is becoming shorter and shorter. News is taking the challenge to appeal to as many audiences as it can. Social media is where majority audiences spend their time. Creating shorter news allows everyone to receive the news as fast and efficiently as possible without being near a TV.  Twitter is known to be successful in making shorter posts and getting out enough about the story. Social media is the n

My major is Broadcast journalism but in high school I was opinion column editor for my school newspaper. Writing stories for our school newspaper was fun to me. My teacher tried to stress the importance of using styles book but he probably let us slide too many times when we didn't. Now that I am in college the teachings of my high school teacher are gone. In media writing, it is imperative that I learn the correct way and all the different ways to media writing.   Newspaper writing and broadcast writing are similar in a few technical ways but they are drastically different in other ways. For an example, broadcasting has no inverted pyramid like Newspaper writing. Broadcasting is all about what's happening right now and the tense is always present.  Newspaper writing is writing in past or future tense only. Broadcast writing is done in a script format that goes through a teleprompter for the anchor.  The one column script format for radio and two column script format f