by blakemccoy | Apr 12, 2023 | Blake McCoy, Professional Overview
As a journalist, engaging your audience is crucial to the success of your work. Engaging your audience means capturing their attention, keeping them interested, and encouraging them to interact with your content. In this blog, we will explore how journalists can...
by blakemccoy | Mar 8, 2023 | Blake McCoy, Professional Overview
News organizations use a journalistic style of writing to structure a story. It typically starts with a hierarchy of information and follows a set of principles commonly used in news articles. Journalists follow a formula when creating a story, which can be applied to...
by blakemccoy | Dec 11, 2022 | Blake McCoy, Professional Overview
Journalists interview sources to gather information about a specific topic or subject. For instance, as a journalist for an environmental news outlet, you can interview experts and ecologists to find out more about upcoming initiatives and projects. These interviews...
by blakemccoy | Aug 10, 2022 | Blake McCoy, Professional Overview
A recent poll by the Press Gazette revealed that most voters believe AI robots are threatening the journalism industry. Although AI is still in its early stages of development, it is already being used in the news industry to gather, produce, and distribute...
by blakemccoy | Jul 14, 2022 | Blake McCoy, Professional Overview
Media literacy is the ability to point out different media types and understand the messages they’re sending. It helps us understand the media’s role in our society and teaches us to ask critical questions. Media literacy provides the tools that enable us...
