$5 Million Donation for Journalism Exhibit
Saturday, October 2, 2010
HP donated $5 million to build a new journalism exhibit at the Newseum in Washington D.C.
The new exhibit will focus on technology and how it relates to journalism.
The exhibit will be an interactive place for visitors to experience the news, and it will show how certain forms of media may be used to report the news first.
In the article created by the Washington Post, one form of media was specifically noted.
Twitter was mentioned as to how it may be the first to deliver word or pictures of breaking news. Many journalists these days are utilizing Twitter to spread the news quicker.
The Newseum is clearly also relevant to journalists these days because it seems to educate the public on the importance of social media with how news is spread. I still here people complaining day to day about how Twitter, especially, is boring an inapplicable to them.
In reality, Twitter is applicable to those people because if they care at all about the news, which I think they should, then Twitter is an important tool for keeping up with it.
My hope is that this new exhibit at the Newseum will help non-journalists to better understand the uses of social media.
1 comments:
That is a chunk of change! It is for a good cause though and I agree with you hopefully the exhibit will make other people who don't know as much about journalism and social media more aware of the ways our society is leaning towards now a days. I would love to visit it someday!
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