For Friday’s lesson, the class should discuss the inverted pyramid structure again regarding mobile media. Pyramids such as this, and the last we saw a few chapters ago, lay out how journalists should format their media. To cater to the public, one must begin with the most important or “newsworthy” details and then get more niche on the way down due to declining attention spans.

An additional item the class should discuss is the integration of multimedia into today’s news. While this class primarily focuses on the written aspect, journalists must recognize what obtains the attention of more audiences. Outreach can mean using videos, audio, blogs, various social media platforms, etcetera. Newsrooms must work to apply themselves in many formats for the variety of ways audiences retain information and churn out stories quickly and effectively. Curiously, changing the structure or tense of the sentence changes when in different formats. An intruiging attribute to specific mediums, particularly with “said” and “says” is when changing from print to broadcast. Journalism appears to use many different writing rules compared to how students learn to write nowadays. It is somewhat unusual for someone who has never written this way, so how does one remember all these rules and minor or major formatting variations?