Multimedia Journalism

With the impact of social media on society, journalism is now taking a turn to multimedia. Journalists are using many different outputs for getting their stories out there as opposed to just the hardcopy of the newspaper.

Multimedia journalism is journalism through different types of media. With the new change story output, the rules change as well.

One thing that I found to be very interesting which was discussed in both Multimedia Standards and Multimedia Grid is the ethical dilemma of the use of music. With the new multimedia journalism, journalists can add music to help enhance their stories. One of the issues was whether a journalist should use music in their stories or not as it can "skew the narrative." Some journalists think it is okay to use music in feature articles but never on hard news stories.

I agree with that last statement. Hard news stories should be taken seriously and I think adding music to them will take away from the importance of the story. A feature story has a little more wiggle room and I don't think readers would mind having music accompany the story. I think it also depends on the story as to when to use music. In the end, the journalist has to think of the best way to tell the best story; if adding music to the article will help to better tell the story then I think it's okay to use music.