A Reiteration

Today in my 21st century journalism class I had big time deja-vu to our class on Monday. We had a guest skype speaker today, Megan Specia who is a 2009 UH journalism gad and who now works for a new company in the journalism world- Storyful. Storyful verifies that different videos, pictures and tweets are legitimate and verifiable so they can be used on air or in stories. I think this is a really cool way to combine the digital/social media side of journalism to the basics of finding the facts and making sure they are true. Something Megan said towards the end of our little chit chat was that, as college journalism students, one of the most important and helpful things we can be doing for ourselves and our career at this moment is to be using our social media site (twitter, facebook, instagram, etc.) to really make a name for ourselves. Megan suggested joining online journalism group or chats, blogging, tweeting and following prominent news sources on social media to just begin to get our names out there and start to get in touch with possible future employers. This was a major flashback to what John was saying on Monday bout using our twitters (and other things) to promote ourselves and make a name for ourselves in the big bad world of digital journalism. I figured it was important but, hearing the same thing from two guest speakers in one week really just reiterated the idea.