In todays technology driven world, there are two types of media outlets. Traditional and New media. Each having a basis around the media world. Two totally but not out of the ordinary media format.
The difference between Traditional and New media is like night and day. Traditional media consists of mainly print media. For example, newspapers, magazines, and other print media. An example of a popular traditional media can be the New York Times and Time magazine. New media consists of things that are on the internet. For example, news websites, twitter, facebook, myspace, sources that reach your cell phones. Popular new media outlets are Twitter, Facebook, and newspapers that post their stories online such as the Washington Post.
Writing for the web is totally different than traditional news writing. The obvious thing that sticks out for writing for the web is "webifying" your content. Meaning everything is short and straight to the point. For example, the New York Times has very short, but yet very informative articles that get straight to the point.
Blogging, tweeting, and texting have a huge part on how people recieve their news today. Today everything is so fast paced that people don't have time to pick up the newspaper everyday to sit down and read. So people place the news on blogs, they post it up on twitter feeds and some news sites send up to date text on current headlines. People recieve the news within seconds of it happening due to the fact that we have these outlets such as twitter and texting. A great example of this was the Protest in Iran. A female protestor or journalist was killed during the protest in Iran, within seconds someone shot the event on their phone and posted it on twitter. It was up within seconds, and the news on TV didn't get the story until hours after it happened. Papers didn't post the story till the very next morning.
In the artice the "Distribution Revolution," Twitter was the main form of media. During Hurricane Hana, people were given a chance to post their own eyewitness accounts during the event. Editor Robyn Tomlin said "but people rom all over the world were suddenly following these tweets becuase it was happening in that moment."
So people were not waiting for news to come on their local channels. They went straight to twitter and recieved news about what people were seeing and witnessing as soon as it happened. People do not want to wait for news. They want it "now" and they want it to be posted as fast as possible. "Maybe in earlier eras [news organizations] needed proof of concept to do anything; now nobody's waiting for proof of concept," says Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
New media is slowly taking over. Is it going to take over completely and wipe away all forms of traditional media? Probably not, but no matter what, it is here to stay.
