News & Social Media - Statement of Justification
Problem
Most Americans prefer to see the news on a screen: meaning on social media or their phones ("1. Pathways to news," 2016). Americans also want to be able to get their information fast. Not everyone is able to be in front of a television, or have access to a radio at the very moment that important news or a crisis takes place. Americans are demanding a faster way of getting their news today.
Justification
Journalists are on the run everyday, and timing is the most important aspect of news reporting today: The TV channel that gives the news first, is in the spotlight, in a positive way. It is important to consider this app in the Telecommunications field, because having a news report edited and ready to air would be a luxury for news channels. Splice is an application that allows you to edit videos easily while making them look extremely professional. Any journalist who takes a look at the steps of the videomaking process can master the app in one day. This application works as well as a desktop editor, but it was designed to be used on mobile phones and iPads. Any political event or decision could be aired right away, if the journalist has the authority to use this application to create his own report and send it to the TV station or post it on the TV station’s social media. Any time-sensitive issue could benefit from this application: car or airplane crashes accidents, bank robberies, political crisis, disease outbreak, terrorist attacks, or a business crisis.
Summary of Research
Research shows that most Americans are getting their news from social media than from any TV station or radio station ("News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2017," 2017). This doesn’t mean that there aren’t any other places to get news from, it simply means that Americans now feel more comfortable getting them through social media. In 2013, a Boston marathon explosion was first reported through Twitter. The other news reporting agencies reported the details of the news 15 inutes after Twitted had posted the attack. Between the time for news to reach a newspaper or TV station, getting the film crew on the scene along with reporters, editing the news or preparing to air it live; this takes away enough time for the news to be “late.” Splice is an application that can solve this problem by allowing journalists to film the footage, edit it in a fast and easy way, and send it back to the station to get the news on TV or on social media as fast as possible. This will cut enugh time to make news as “live” and fast as possible.
References
Pathways to news. (2016, July 7). Retrieved from http://www.journalism.org/2016/07/07/ pathways-to-news/
News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2017. (2017, September 7). Retrieved from http:// www.journalism.org/2017/09/07/news-use-across-social-media-platforms-2017/
Ritholtz, B. (2017, May 25). Twitter is becoming the first and quickest source of investment news. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/apr/23/twitter-first- source-investment-news
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