Introduction

This blog will examine the way people access news through different mediums in this digital age, and how technology affects the way that news is reported, as well as the various facets of digital journalism. Since the beginning of the 21st century, technology has seeped its way into just about every aspect of our lives, allowing us to become more immersed in the things we love and care about. In the world of journalism, technology has had a number of effects of the way news is reported and consumed.
This blog will look at the various wheres and hows of news consumption, and what kind of influence technology has on the world of journalism, and will try to answer a multitude of different questions. Such as :does technology have an influence on the amount of bias in the reporting of news? Has the recent popularity of blogging had an impact on story leads and how news is broken? What kind of effect do mobile devices have on the way people are able to consume their news.
As a journalism major, I hope that investigating this topic will give me a better understanding of the technological influence in news than my other peers in the college. I believe that the influence of technology in journalism is going to prove to be incredibly important in the future of news, based on the recent drop in broadcast viewers and print sales. For the generation that I grew up with, the internet is incredibly important. We are the Facebook age. We depend on the internet. The internet for our demographic is a primary source for news consumption. Broadcast is still number one for older age demographics, but I am going to make a prediction that as this generation grows into adulthood, since we have grown up with internet dependence, the internet and other digital facets will prove to be the most important and valuable ways of delivering information to the largest number of people possible.
Recently in my News Writing and Editing course, my professor asked us if we believed the influence of technology was frightening to us. I was semi-confused as to why he would ask us this question, considering that this influence is may prove to be a decent boom in journalism. Through this investigation, I hope to prove that technology is not scary and is in fact a good thing within the world of news.