Summary of chapter 13-News Gathering and Reporting

I have learned about deciding what is news.They contains timeliness,proximity,prominence,consequences,human interest and economics.Internet increase number of news sources like general new sites,news aggregators and specialized news sites.Well in digital age,they contain Citizen Journalisim,Hyperlocal News,and the Converged Journalist.Besides that,i have learned about the categories of news and reporting that is hard news and soft news.In hard news they contain two medium that is print media and broadcast media,whereas soft news features wide range of topics and human interest and they also follow the Inverted Pyramid style like print media that is more common on TV than radio.They also contain Investigative Reports that is kinda longer than typical news.Well according to the News flow,many gatekeepers in print and broadcast news whereas online reporting have fewer gatekeepers.Rather than that,there is a important service which is knwn as the Wire Services.The 2 biggest wire services knwn as AP AND UPI.Wire Services provide most of the news about what's going on outside the local community.Media also have different in News courage knwn as words and pictures where TV has strong visual dimension ,but visual is also important to print and online.Finally i also learned about Readership and Viewership in where audience has become less likely to trust the media.