Week 2 Journal

All of these journalists are journalists online, but most based on twitter. These journalists write about how technology and social media are changing and influencing our everyday lives. The first journalist is Wesley Lowery is a journalist at the Washington Post. About 4 years ago he won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016. He also has a strong background on twitter and other social media platforms. He attended Ohio University, and he was editor and chief of his campus newspaper. Wesley spent a lot of his career working on political pieces, however he said that it got to be too much for him to handle. He started using twitter and blogs to send out his articles and thoughts. https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/people/wesley-lowery 
The second journalist is Kara Swisher is an american technology business journalist and cofounder of Recode. She received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University’s School and her graduate degree at Columbia University’s School of Journalism (VOX 2019). She previously wrote for The Wall Street Journal, and serving for the co-executive editor of all things digital. “Swisher became a contributing writer to The New York Times Opinion Section in August 2018, focusing on tech. She also answers questions weekly during live videos on Twitter”( VOX 2019). A piece that she wrote that I thought was interesting was ‘breaking news about the web’s major players and Internet policy’. It showed how people were misusing the technology they were using, they also were not following the rules the internet set up. 
The third journalist that I am intruding is Jenna Wortham. She grew up in Alexandria, Virgina, and went to the University of Virginia and Jenna studied anthropology. where she interned for San Francisco Magazine and Girlfriend Magazine and then eventually became a technology and culture reporter for Wired. Jenna chose the topic of technology and media because she said he likes the challenges that gives. The challenges are that it is always changing, which requires constant learning of the technology and media. She to this day she still is creating great work. 
The fourth journalist is Jennifer Alejandro, she is a singapore journalist with 15 years of experience. She has studied social media like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn have affected the way news organizations and news journalists operate. Jennifer writes for herself and published her own article on her own personal accounts. She includes apart about using news operating across the world. She writes that social media branding and making a presence in the media's perspective. “The main risks they identified were concerns regarding accuracy, the need for verification and the loss of control over the information”( 2019). Jenny concludes that ‘Journalism is not dead but merely evolving and the journalists of the future need to reinvent themselves too.'(2019) 
Lastly, but certainly not least is Ulrika Hedman. She is interested in the profession of journalism, journalism practice, social media in journalism, and social news media logic. She doesn't write for a specific platform, but she does write on her own personal websites, and accounts. She is a professor at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. There isn't much about her other than she still lives in Sweden and writes blogs and articles for the world to read and understand. 

Citations
1.Berkley Center for Religion, and Georgetown University. “Wesley Lowery.” Berkeley Center For Religion, Peace and World Affairs, 2017, berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/people/wesley-lowery.
2. VOX. “Kara Swisher.” Vox, 2019, www.vox.com/authors/kara-swisher.
3. Rack, Muck. “Jenna Wortham.” Muck Rack, 2019, muckrack.com/jennydeluxe.
4. Alejandro, Jennifer. “Journalism in the Age of Social Media.” Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 2019, reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/our-research/journalism-age-social-media.
 5. Hedman, Ulrika. “Ulrika Hedman.” NordMedia Network, 2019, nordmedianetwork.org/researchers/ulrika-hedman/.

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