I’ve never been all that interested in news. I find it depressing and largely irrelevant to me. However the rise of social media and the meshing together of professional platforms with social ones has drawn me into absolutely loving news.

I don’t like the news that my parents like, political things and old people that I don’t know doing things and blah blah blah. I’m much more interested with the crazy and unbelievable things that happen everyday, and thanks to modern technology, are often filmed or photographed. Now that it’s so entertainment based and easily accessible in small doses I thrive off of it. I watch news stories all the time, some of them are just ridiculous and some of them are fully serious but I just find it so much easier to connect with in the form that it comes now. So I decided to think about that form. It’s so basic it’s almost comical. A sentence of two explaining the basics or the most intriguing sentence in relation to the content they could think of to draw you in, and then a short video that shows it or has someone explaining further, and if I’m really intrigued then there’s also a link I can click on to read the full story.

This simple and effective method of dispersing news has inspired me. I’ve called news segments ‘stories’ for as long as I can remember but I’ve never actually thought of them as actual stories before, stories with a structure and a point, stories that are intended to sell. I’d never stopped and thought about why I was so interested. Now I want to be the one releasing and making those news stories.