Final Anaylsis

1. TOPIC 1: How is Social Media used in each media vehicle?  Is it used in conjunction with other media channels (cross-referencing or linking to other media)?  Describe how this is happening, and in your opinion, the perceived impact on the "target" audience.
Social Media is used as a way to show user generated footage or eye witness accounts of news. Also, it is used to connect the audience with that media vehicle. For example, People can join LA Times Newspaper Facebook page to follow up to the minute news and updates. It allows people to access news type things from their phones.Social Media is completely intertwining itself throughout all the Media Vehicles and it is evident everywhere you look today. The target audience is getting way to much information and to many advertisements making the consumer want to by more and more. I think social media is connecting everyone together in the world a lot quicker.

2. TOPIC 2: Fact checking, accuracy, and credibility:  In your analysis, compare each media vehicle, and the effectiveness of the news reporting.  Does the story vary in its facts from one vehicle to another?  How is the information conveyed differently across the various mass media channels?  Does the use of multimedia impact fact checking, accuracy, or credibility (in other words, how are news stories supported? What sources are cited to support their reporting?)

The newspaper is very good at reporting, but I believe that it will be going to completely online soon. Television does a good job at reporting the news, but sometimes its the news we really do not care about or is not important. Blogs are a good source of mostly opinionated information because people convey the information how they want you to hear it. Social Media is a great source of news reporting you can get eye witness videos, stay up to the minute of twitter and Facebook, social media is the future. For the most part all the media vehicles have the same facts, sometimes the story is twisted to be in favor of a certain group. They are conveyed in many ways, television, internet, and internent are just a few. Yes, the use of multimedia shows the story support, by putting up videos of eye witnesses, using other sources for facts.The names of people who know what there talking about are cited and all professionals in that field they are reporting they can cite.

3. TOPIC 3: Multi-media reporting:  In cases where a news agency has both an online and another media channel presence (for example, CNN has a cable channel, plus an online website), how is the message of the story conveyed?  Is the story part of an ongoing news cycle (that is, part of an hourly or other periodic broadcast)? How is the news story presented in its online counterpart?  Is there a difference in the way the story is covered online?

When a company has two forms of media vehicles, online and another agency the message is conveyed a little differently. They will talk about it on the television, but then tell you for more information on this go to CNN.com or something of that matter. Yes, the story is part of a news cycle that is never stopping so you can go online to read more about it with out being speed thru it. The story is presented as a link and you click on it to get the full story. Also, the stories are organized by what they have to do with. I think the story can be more lengthy online because they are not pressured for time.

4.  TOPIC 4: The presence of Citizen Journalism.  One example of this is where news media programs take video submitted from viewers' cell phones.  Another example is where websites aggregate (compile) news stories from both major- and independent sources, such as CurrentTV (http://www.currenttv.com), or even YouTube.com.  How does this form of journalism impact the user experience from the audience's perspective? Does the reporting (or video in this case) raise issues of ethics, especially in terms of privacy, or freedom of speech?  Explain.

This form of journalism makes the audience more connected with the victims or the news story. Audience see the real up close of what happens and it makes things more dramatic. Example of this is the videos of the batman massacre, people filmed it while it was happening off their phones. It does not get more real than that, people see these and want to keep watching. Makes news more interesting. I do not think this really infringes on anyones rights or freedoms. Ya a person could be on TV that does not want to be seen, but it is a source of media that is a must have. If we did not have eye witness videos it would not be as dramatic. Look at  wars before TV people really did not think war was that bad, until they saw the brutality of it. So no there shall be no issues raised on this subject because it is needed to keep people informed.