Chapter 4 & 5

     Each social media platform has its own set of rules and guidelines that they must follow when reporting, advertising, or just posting. There are many different ways to fact-check your sources. Chapter four goes into great detail about the different types of sources and how reliable each one is. It emphasizes the importance of having great credibility in your news articles, and how as a reader, it is important to find the sources that properly gathered their information and are credible. Chapter five goes into detail about the proper way of preparing and conducting an interview. 

    We have been discussing the most common ways people now receive their news. Social media is one of the top ways people stay informed about what is going on in the world. Although it is a lot easier to find all of the sources listed in chapter four by using social media, it can be much harder to verify the information from these sources. Before conducting an interview, you should always do your research beforehand. It is important to be well informed before you begin interviewing someone. You need to rely on credible sources and not just something your grandma might have shared on Facebook because we all know that it is most likely fake news. 

    I wish there was more information about the federal shield laws that were trying to be put in place for journalists. I did not realize that journalists would be forced to give up the name of an anonymous source in court. It was interesting to read briefly about the Free Flow of Information Act. I know they said they are still in the process of determining who would be protected under this act considering the increase of citizen journalism, but I wonder what has been discussed so far since the rise of social media and the effect it has had on the creation of journalism? Do you think anyone should be covered or only people with the journalist title?