Round table

ver the past few months in this class, there were many instances with the timelines of the history of Journalism that correlate to how the new age of journalism is today. 

For starters, in 1939 during the war in Europe, FM radio was introduced to the public. This was a huge difference and impact for music and radio in general as FM radio spread way farther across the country and with its change in hertz, it made the music that was played on the radio sound a lot better at night  than AM radio music that would be played in the morning. 

This correlates with the modern day because of the fact that AM and FM radio are still around in the modern day with radios within cars playing in the morning, afternoon, and night.

The printing press truly paved the way for the process of fast printing within the modern era and the quick spread of newspapers. Back in the 18th and 19th century, people used to use the printing press to release newspapers that wouldn’t be available to the public until a week later. However, when the  printing process got faster, newspapers started to spread across the area faster and got to the public in a matter of a day. 

In the modern era, news is everywhere and can be accessed anytime through apps on cellular devices and television as well with numerous news stations providing many stories available at their disposal. 

One thing that has shocked me with the growth of journalism was the amount of sub genres that formed throughout the eras like photojournalism, sports journalism, gossip journalism, and many others that came after the dawn of those types of journalism. Nowadays, more and more types of journalism are being introduced and spread across the entire country, sparking many more journalists to voice their opinions on that certain sub-genre of journalism.