The BeeHive Journal

Digitally Inclined A podcast on everything digital in the news world.  Hello once again! I've recently developed a short test-episode for a podcast. Go give it a listen and share your thoughts!  Listen Here!   The Digitally Inclined podcast will be uploaded every Monday onto my SoundCloud! 

Social media has turned the news world on its head.  It's in everyone's hands, their pockets. It's on their computer screens at work and in in the home.  Social media is a powerhouse of modern journalism. Digital natives spring like bamboo stalks from Facebook's many pages. In the eyes of many journalists, the web is the every-giving sea of social-media perks.  But for many, it's a ball and chain.  Because of social media platforms, journalism has taken a turn. Many legacy news now faces a crisis; cater to the needs of consumers or produce hard news.  What has changed?  In the '90s news jumped from the page onto the web. Very quickly, the news was consumed more on the web than paper. There is less brand loyalty within the news realm, and news is produced at incredible rates. If a big story, say a plane crash, broke, the audience isn't waiting on the Connecticut Law Tribune  to print a five-column inch story tomorrow morning at 9; they

Snapchat may be a trendy messenger app, but it's not ideal for news.  Snapchat is an image messaging platform that became public in September of 2011. It's incredibly popular amongst millennials. In an effort to reach a wider, younger audience to build company-loyalty amongst millennials, news organizations like Buzzfeed have bought space on the discovery page to boost its popularity amongst millennials. How much news is consumed?    Snapchat is not a popular news platform. In the Reuters 2017 digital news survey , it didn't list in the top-five social media platforms where people get their news in Canada or US. In this  journalism.org  article, Snapchat boomed in popularity, but still unpopular in comparison to Twitter or YouTube. Facebook is the prime social-media platform when it comes to news. It has  the largest user-base out of all social media platforms. Out of the 65% of US, adults use Facebook, 45% of them get their news from it. In a survey by the Pew Res

Rebecca Blake BeeHive Journal BBC, Washington Post and the New York Times have all been accused of click-bait. Is it a real concern? (photo creds Quora ) Clickbait is everywhere you look; on Facebook, Twitter, even in the Sunday paper. Click-bait has broken out like a digital rash, infecting everything on the web, even the most sophisticated news organizations. The big question orbiting the ominous buzz-word is whether it is ethical . What line does media draw when it comes to getting clicks and likes? In the eyes of many, clickbait is as criminal as straight-up lying in an article. However, a growing population of tech-savvy journalists who approve of clickbait, are embracing it with critical, loving arms. Though the public perception of click-bait is bad, news organizations utilize click-bait to gather views and shares, which can lead to exposure and advertisement money. Click-bait is the art of catching a reader's eye by initiating a battle. Catchy titles