BIOM 121 1nd Edition Lecture 6 Outline of Last Lecture I. Two videosOutline of Current Lecture II. Finishing the Beat III. Journalists and TwitterCurrent Lecture What are some dangers of the beat? You can get so caught up that you’re writing for who you are covering instead of who your audience is The Beat system is almost too static/aligned with institutions that you are missing other stuff  All the stories that don’t fall into our organizational schema get missed.  Things that could be beats on campus Student organizations  Food  Drinking alcohol  Health  Fashion  Greek life Live music Rugby sports at UGA is example of something that could fall through the crack  The weakness of the beat system is that we miss some stuff. A beat is an organizing system.  But it doesn’t address the changes in how people get news  News must be easy as possible to share with your social media of choice  Ways Journalists use Twitter To monitor the beats (athletics, politicians, government agencies, etc.)  Twitter is used by 17-18% of Internet users Young African Americans use twitter the most  To “live tweet” an event, posting while covering a story *To point to a story put online, often through use of shortened URL These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute. To monitor other journalists  To engage with the audience  To seek out sources  Mobile Data  Do a better job pushing news out to mobile Audience for TV are older  News Attitudes and Habits  We all define news