After reading Mark’s latest blog (click here to check it out), I started thinking about how I get my news.  A recent college graduate myself, I am less inclined to sit down at 6pm and watch the Channel 4 news like my dad does everyday.  Instead, I troll social media outlets, my Google Reader feed, and on occasion, I’ll learn about a newsworthy event from a friend’s status on my Facebook feed (I guess the “newsfeed” has to pump out actual news sometimes.)

This caused me to think about my friends’ news habits and about the constant discussion about the “death” of traditional media.  While it’s true college students (and recent graduates) are less likely to pick up the daily newspaper and read it cover to cover like our parents or grandparents did, I don’t think traditional media is “dying” like so many people fear.  Instead, it is shifting forms and becoming more accessible by those who consume it.

So maybe a newsroom isn’t the picturesque scene of men in bowler caps hunched over typewriters, rapidly cranking out the next big story, but I say, so what?

News and the media will always exist.  College students will always be in the forefront of technology.  So why not embrace it?  After all, as long as the news is being communicated truthfully and justly (which is another matter entirely), does it matter which channel it travels through?

-Sarah Paulus