Journalism is a highly regarded and very necessary component of society. To report on local events and critique the forces that governs and influences the masses. As society evolves so does the number of ways and technologies used to report do. Multimedia journalism is the new form of journalism that engages the audience with a number of narratives rather than just one or two. Using images, audio, video, print, links, and social media. Applying all of these methods tends to grab the attention of the viewer or reader greatly and delivers the story from a number of different angles.
The growths of these techniques are now incorporated into a number of U.S. College and universities. Schools around the country educated students on all of these skills and techniques. The next generation of journalists will be multi dimensional as will their content be. The internet has allowed this renaissance of journalism due to the ease of receiving and sending information.
Large amounts of data are exchanged throughout the internet and filtering it can be a challenge. Data overload is a reoccurring issue especially in the time of a natural disaster or time of crisis. The beauty of multimedia journalism lies in its ability to allow content other than print tell the story. According to an article published by TuoitreNews the Pilipino government was able to use social media to communicate information about the recent typhoon, where some people were able to evacuate on time.
In closing the growth of multimedia journalism has made impacts in not only informing the public it has made stride in education the public on the new advances of technology and storytelling.
Below I have a Storify post of content that exhibits some of the qualities of multimedia journalism.