{"id":9458,"date":"2017-11-09T18:19:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T23:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/?p=9458"},"modified":"2017-11-09T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T01:38:09","slug":"new-media-inform-discuss-educate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/new-media-inform-discuss-educate\/","title":{"rendered":"New media: Inform, discuss, educate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By REGINA S\u00c1NCHEZ JIM\u00c9NEZ<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of the huge competition and fight between news media to become the leading newspaper for readers, newspapers offer new services that have been previously unnecessary .<\/p>\n<p>As I pointed in one of my past posts, online newspapers use new tools as Virtual Reality to offer a new experience of the same service. But that\u2019s not enough now.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, <em>The Washington Post<\/em> tries to differ from the competitors providing a service called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-live\/?utm_term=.c3ba8f0f0dd4\">Washington Post Live<\/a>.\u201d It\u2019s described as \u201cthe newsroom\u2019s live journalism platform.\u201d It\u2019s a platform where legitimate voices of different fields discuss the main issues that concern the citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>The service is based on live programs about some contemporary topics, but not necessarily related to breaking news. The procedure to attend is free and just requires a pre-registration. And for those people that cannot attend in person, they can subscribe to receive a notification and watch it streaming.<\/p>\n<p>This open knowledge almost plays a public service role participating in the audience\u2019s education.<\/p>\n<p>If we assume that one of the duties of the news media is to inform the readers about issues that can impact their lives, we can claim that this platform contributes to achieving it. Also, it contributes to the democracy because an informed public serves democracy the best.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9444\" style=\"width: 361px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/9490777466_82bf51d9db_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9444\" class=\"wp-image-9444 \" src=\"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/9490777466_82bf51d9db_o-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/esthervargasc\/\">Esther Vargas<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>For example, the last program was the 8<sup>th<\/sup> of November about Cybersecurity: Personal Privacy in a Digital World and the next one will be on Nov. 14 about the transformation of American cities to adapt to demographic, economic and technological changes.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em> is a sample of how a newspaper without neglecting its main informative priorities, such as breaking news, can cover other important topics that most of the times don\u2019t create break news by themselves, but they\u2019re enough important to be known by the society. And meanwhile, <em>The Post<\/em> creates a discussion space and empowers every single listener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By REGINA S\u00c1NCHEZ JIM\u00c9NEZ In the middle of the huge competition and fight between news media to become the leading newspaper for readers, newspapers offer new services that have been previously unnecessary . As I pointed in one of my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/new-media-inform-discuss-educate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[614],"tags":[42,28,34],"class_list":["post-9458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regina-sanchez-jimenez","tag-digital-journalism","tag-media","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9468,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9458\/revisions\/9468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}