Monday, October 9, 2017
Journalists & PR PROS: ALLIES OR ENEMIES
Today, media and press are a big deal. You must be careful about what you say and how you say it, especially if you're famous or a person of interest in a certain situation. On one side of things you have someone who may be asking you specific questions and trying to put a story out and on the other side you have people in your ear telling you what to say. What side would you take? I personally would take the side of the journalist. I feel it's their job to ask the questions & release stories that a person may or may not be comfortable with. It's not always to be "messy" for a lack of better words but it's simply them doing their job. They wouldn't be journalists if they didn't. I feel Journalists and PR PROS are more so enemies than allies. I feel journalists sometimes releases false accusations looking for almost anything to put out there just to have a story. Sometimes they don't care who they could be hurting amid it all. I also feel it's a lack of communication between the journalist and the public relations professional. I feel stories are sometimes mixed up and a journalist should go straight to the source. Journalists sometimes leaves the PR PROS to clean up a lot of rumors and not so pleasant things that are said. I also feel PR PROS put out stories to make themselves or their clients look good. Do they really mean what is being said ? Maybe or maybe not. A lot of times it's a cover up. They do or say what's going to keep them from losing out on money, endorsements, and more. Sometimes when statements are released from PR PROS it's no coming back. People already have their minds made up and don't believe what is being said anyway. Everyone has different view points because I found in an article that some journalists turn into great PR PROS.
Sunday, October 8, 2017
The Journey Of Ms. Tywanna Pryor
"Everything you see on TV isn't as pretty as it looks" said Pryor. Ms. Tywanna Pryor is a former producer at WJAX/WFOX CBS news station . She graduated from Edward Waters College, which was the first HBCU in Florida where she majored in mass communications. She is originally from Jacksonville, Florida. She graduated in August with a masters degree in journalism from Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida.
While Ms. Pryor was in college she interned at WJXT. After college she worked two jobs, one as a bartender at outback steakhouse and the other at a news station. She worked in gainsville as a reporter for a short amount of time but was only making 19,000 dollars a year. She applied to her first job online that she found on google and got called 9 months out of college. Pryor signed a 1 year contract and produced the 4pm show and put a piece together for the 10pm show.
She also worked at KWES News West 9 in Texas. She noticed that being behind the scenes was better than being in front of the camera because that's where the money was. Ms. Pryor just recently had an interesting experience as one of world's most dangerous hurricanes hit (hurricane Irma). Staff had to work 36 hours, with no commercial breaks. They had 12 hours on air and 12 hours off air.
She had to spend 9 hours in a booth with other producers. There were 6 million people across the state of Florida that were without power. It took about 6 days to get power restored to the entire state. "Flood waters were higher than a desk" said Ms. Pryor. Once their staff went to different shelters to interview the hurricane victims, they ran into former professional American football quarterback Tim Tebow.
This was a big deal to get an interview from him because he is well known around the state of Florida. They were the only station out of the four stations in Jackson to interview Tim Tebow live. Even though Tywanna Pryor loves what she does she feels in order to be successful in this business you must be able to multitask, communicate and be a leader. She now resides in South Carolina as a communications teacher at South Carolina State University.
While Ms. Pryor was in college she interned at WJXT. After college she worked two jobs, one as a bartender at outback steakhouse and the other at a news station. She worked in gainsville as a reporter for a short amount of time but was only making 19,000 dollars a year. She applied to her first job online that she found on google and got called 9 months out of college. Pryor signed a 1 year contract and produced the 4pm show and put a piece together for the 10pm show.
She also worked at KWES News West 9 in Texas. She noticed that being behind the scenes was better than being in front of the camera because that's where the money was. Ms. Pryor just recently had an interesting experience as one of world's most dangerous hurricanes hit (hurricane Irma). Staff had to work 36 hours, with no commercial breaks. They had 12 hours on air and 12 hours off air.
She had to spend 9 hours in a booth with other producers. There were 6 million people across the state of Florida that were without power. It took about 6 days to get power restored to the entire state. "Flood waters were higher than a desk" said Ms. Pryor. Once their staff went to different shelters to interview the hurricane victims, they ran into former professional American football quarterback Tim Tebow.
This was a big deal to get an interview from him because he is well known around the state of Florida. They were the only station out of the four stations in Jackson to interview Tim Tebow live. Even though Tywanna Pryor loves what she does she feels in order to be successful in this business you must be able to multitask, communicate and be a leader. She now resides in South Carolina as a communications teacher at South Carolina State University.
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
All About Shaliyah
Standing five feet seven inches, with jet black hair and dark brown eyes lies an alluring and socially confident woman. But do you know the real her? You think you know but you have no idea.
"Ten years from now I see myself in a big city, representing a big company or brand, maybe even being a spokesperson or reporter". Shaliyah Ty'von North, born May 20, 1995 mostly known as "Liyah" is an American female from Charleston, South Carolina. She is the daughter of Makeba Garrett and La'guardia North.
Her mom is a receptionist at a dermatologist office, father La'guardia drives truck and stepfather is a construction worker. Shaliyah attends South Carolina State University as a senior broadcasting communications major.
Following in her family's footsteps is why Shaliyah chose South Carolina State University. She is the baby of two children. Her eldest sibling is her brother whose twenty seven years old. In Shaliyah's spare time she enjoys cheering, dancing and going shopping.
Disney Pixar and adult swim are some of her favorite television programs to say the least. Her favorite musical artist is rapper J. Cole. "I listen to a lot of HipHop and R&B" said North.
Wanting to excel in everything she does, Shaliyah's biggest fear in life is losing herself. Sweet, humble and blessed are three words she'd use to describe herself.
Within her twenty two years of living North feels that life will teach you who and what is and is not important. Her future plans are to graduate and attend graduate school.
Shaliyah feels her strengths are determination and never giving up and her weaknesses are letting people get to her. Some of her short term goals is to vacation in different states across the world.
If there was one thing she could do differently in life it would be to spread love and peace to those who don't know how to love. Pay attention, stay on top of things and always be yourself would be future advice she would give other broadcasting majors. Shaliyah said being in college will teach you responsibility and how to be yourself.
Because of the hard work and determination her mom inspires her the most. "When it's all said and done I want to be remembered as the girl who always stayed true to herself and never gave up". Shaliyah now spends her time relaxing and enjoying her last year of college.
To keep up with the latest updates and news in Shaliyah North's life you can follow her on blogger.com at WordUpNewsWithShaliyah.blogspot.com and connect with her on linked in and twitter at Shaliyah North.
"Ten years from now I see myself in a big city, representing a big company or brand, maybe even being a spokesperson or reporter". Shaliyah Ty'von North, born May 20, 1995 mostly known as "Liyah" is an American female from Charleston, South Carolina. She is the daughter of Makeba Garrett and La'guardia North.
Following in her family's footsteps is why Shaliyah chose South Carolina State University. She is the baby of two children. Her eldest sibling is her brother whose twenty seven years old. In Shaliyah's spare time she enjoys cheering, dancing and going shopping.
Wanting to excel in everything she does, Shaliyah's biggest fear in life is losing herself. Sweet, humble and blessed are three words she'd use to describe herself.
Shaliyah feels her strengths are determination and never giving up and her weaknesses are letting people get to her. Some of her short term goals is to vacation in different states across the world.
Because of the hard work and determination her mom inspires her the most. "When it's all said and done I want to be remembered as the girl who always stayed true to herself and never gave up". Shaliyah now spends her time relaxing and enjoying her last year of college.
To keep up with the latest updates and news in Shaliyah North's life you can follow her on blogger.com at WordUpNewsWithShaliyah.blogspot.com and connect with her on linked in and twitter at Shaliyah North.
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Using Twitter Effectively
My thoughts about twitter
is that it’s a reliable source of communication. You can voice your thoughts
and opinions about any and every topic in the world. You can also see what’s
trending and popular topics being talked about for the day or week. Any
picture, video or meme you can also post on twitter. I usually use twitter to
do just that. I voice my opinions about assorted topics such, television shows,
politics, movies or even just people in general.
I don’t post as many pictures as I use to but from time to time I’ll grace my twitter followers with my beauty. I love to retweet other people’s pictures and quote other people’s tweets that I agree with. Twitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstormingsession" held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey then an undergraduate student at New York University, introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group. Jack Dorsey published the first tweet message at 9:50 p.m. pacific standard time on March 21, 2006.
Dorsey tweeted “Just setting up my twitter”. Twitter uses a system of Hashtags (#) so you can follow news stories. In the last year or so the Twitter hashtag itself has become a subject of news discussions on the rolling news as the news companies tell you what is going on or ask your opinions through Twitter. I follow Kylie Jenner, Chris Brown, HBCU Confessions and Dominic Brown to name a few.
The reason I follow Kylie Jenner is because I admire her work ethic and to keep up with the latest on her new make-up line called Kylie cosmetics.
I follow Chris Brown because he’s my favorite R&B singer of all time.
I listen to all his songs, have his albums and every movie he’s played in. The reason I follow HBCU Confessions is because it entertains me to see anonymous students from various HBCU's tweet crazy things they’ve gone through while being enrolled in college.
I don’t post as many pictures as I use to but from time to time I’ll grace my twitter followers with my beauty. I love to retweet other people’s pictures and quote other people’s tweets that I agree with. Twitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstormingsession" held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey then an undergraduate student at New York University, introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group. Jack Dorsey published the first tweet message at 9:50 p.m. pacific standard time on March 21, 2006.
Dorsey tweeted “Just setting up my twitter”. Twitter uses a system of Hashtags (#) so you can follow news stories. In the last year or so the Twitter hashtag itself has become a subject of news discussions on the rolling news as the news companies tell you what is going on or ask your opinions through Twitter. I follow Kylie Jenner, Chris Brown, HBCU Confessions and Dominic Brown to name a few.
The reason I follow Kylie Jenner is because I admire her work ethic and to keep up with the latest on her new make-up line called Kylie cosmetics.
I follow Chris Brown because he’s my favorite R&B singer of all time.
I listen to all his songs, have his albums and every movie he’s played in. The reason I follow HBCU Confessions is because it entertains me to see anonymous students from various HBCU's tweet crazy things they’ve gone through while being enrolled in college.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Student Sound Off Commentary: 911 terrorist attack
Hi, my name is Ashley Hendricks with a Student Sound Off (scroll down to hear my commentary). On September 11, 2001 there were a series of terrorist attacks on the world trade center in New York City. The Islamic extremist group hijacked four airplanes. The attack happened at 8:45 a.m. on a Tuesday morning. A second plane hit 18 minutes after. This was a devastating time in history.
A total of 2,996 people lost their lives that day, including 19 terrorist, 343 firefighters and paramedics and 23 New York City police officers.
The reason I chose this topic was because the anniversary of this attack just recently passed. At the time I was living in Brooklyn, NY. I didn't know what was going on because I was only four years old. After time past and I was old enough to understand what had transpired the tragedy was horrific. Knowing that innocent people lost their lives and family members could never get them back is even worse.
Click below to hear my 911 commentary:
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Cloudy With A Chance Of Photoshop
Original photo taken with iPhone 7 plus
This is a photo taken at an old dormitory named Miller Hall built in 1938. This photo was taken with a IPhone 7 plus camera. I was amazed at how well this building was put together and how old it was.
To say this dorm is 78 years old it looks as if it was only built 20 years ago max.
I love the brick used on this building. It reminds me of an old time apartment in the city.
Adobe Photoshop is a tool that I've just started to use over the past couple of weeks. I used it to adjust and enhance my photographs. I used the black and white point and adjusted the color of the photo to make the actual building and trees around it stand out. Even the clouds look different.
Final version with text added
LinkedIn is a social networking site designed specifically for the business community. People who own companies, businesses, and industries use LinkedIn and also everyday people who are trying to find jobs. LinkedIn is so popular because you can use this social networking platform to increase your business popularity, or to simply find a new place of employment. Some of the features I like on Linked In and that I also think are important are the update posting and news signals. I don't really know anyone on LinkedIn yet because I've just created this site a week ago. This post is me going off of only what I've seen and know thus far. I have no negative or positive reviews to say about anyone's site as of now. What I will try to convey to my LinkedIn site is show my communication skills through networking with others through my college career.
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