By: Ceili Cornelius and Claire Pulkownik The world of news is ever changing these days. No matter where you turn you see another report of “fake news”. Back in the day, news used to come in the form of newspaper that bled ink all over your hands after reading it cover to cover. Now, we get our news in ten second blurbs that deposit loads of information on us in one sitting. Snapchat is huge in the up and coming news industry. It has recently gone public making it more than just the fun easy way to communicate with words and pictures. Now more than half of Snapchat’s revenue comes from the “Discover” page, where the news organizations and magazine post and create “stories” filled with news. (Business Insider). Snapchat is changing the way audiences receive news- especially the younger generation. Our grandparents and parents were getting the news from TV stories and reading the newspaper every morning. Today, the younger generation is getting their news in the form of Snapchat stories that they can watch on their way to class.
There is one particular show that is very politically involved. Good Luck America is a bi-weekly production by Snapchat hosted by CNN veteran Peter Hamby. Every episode contains different content that pertains to the political world today. The show started during the 2016 election that was produced every few months and now is a weekly show that covers topics from the fallout of the 2016 election to local journalism to racial tension in Charlottesville. Students are also getting more involved with Snapchat news because four different college publications have geo-locked campus news stories on snapchat that are produced by students. The Badger Herald from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the Battalion from Texas A&M, the Daily Californian from University of California, Berkeley, the Orange from Syracuse, are the four student newspapers that currently participate in this new feature of college news to Snapchat that only began in 2017. A large part of the appeal to students is that it is a quick and easy way to get information while one walks to class or sitting on their phone with their friends. Accessibility. That is what the new medium of news is allowing for. Students, young adults, and middle aged parents now have access to so much information and news through social media, TV and yes, still the local newspapers. But this makes us wonder, what does this mean for the future of news? Will it turn totally digital? Is it worth it to have all these mediums so readily available? In a lot of ways, it gives audiences only a surface understanding, there isn’t room for analysis by the audience because the plethora of information. It’s different than listening to an hour long NPR episode where there are different speakers on the same subject, and there is room for analysis and you are learning so much more about a certain subject, for example, the conflict in Syria. There are pros and cons to the digital age of news. It allows for young people to stay informed and is easily accessible. But, because of the overwhelming amount of information, it allows for only a surface level understanding before we move onto the next eye-catching news story.
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