generational audience habits
News organizations have been confronting the problem of a shrinking audience for more than a decade, but trends strongly suggest that these difficulties may only worsen over time. Today’s younger and middle-aged audience seems unlikely to ever match the avid news interest of the generations they will replace, even as they enthusiastically transition to the Internet as their principal source of news. Pew Research longitudinal surveys find that Gen Xers (33-47 years old) and Millennials (18-31 years old), who spent less time than older people following the news at the outset of their adulthood, have so far shown little indication that that they will become heavier news consumers as they age.
Why Writers Love New York City (and Then Leave It) - Marie-Helene Westgate
Sari Botton, Melissa Febos, Mira Ptacin, and Cheryl Strayed discuss what inspired their contributions to Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York. In the new anthology Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, contributors share the experience of moving to New York in pursuit of the writing life. In essay after essay, writers describe their experiences moving to New York from Long Island, New Jersey, California, and overseas. Anyone from anywhere can come to New York City in pursuit of fame, riches, and romance, and as a result, Goodbye to All That captures New York’s uniquely nuanced, overlapping landscape of cultures and geographies that for millions feels at once deeply personal and communal. But while something deeper also reveals itself in the pages, some thread of pure accident runs through the story of each writer’s dream of making it in the big city. In Cheryl Strayed’s essay for this anthology, “Minnesota Nice,” she writes,
Art that messes with your head
(Look for seven horses in the picture) A Face? Or the word 'Liar'?
generational Media Consumption
It is considered intuitive that younger people use more diverse devices than older people in order to consume media – but does that mean older adults don’t use any technology to get their news or enjoy television shows and movies? As our world and news cycle becomes faster-paced, in what ways are older generations making attempts to keep up with new media platforms? And how much further ahead of the curve are younger generations, really? To answer these questions, Scarborough reveals the ways American adults are consuming media across platforms and across generations. Millennials* are at the front of the technology curve in terms of device usage, but what is critical to note is that, despite using less “traditional” platforms to consume media, they are still accessing similar types of information as other generations. For Baby Boomers*, radio and newspaper are the desired methods for media consumption, though the devices they use for these activities are perhaps surprising.
Demetrios Drystellas
The magic of the night glows up any city with the many lights, the crowds, the vibrant life, the filled cafes. Greece photographer Demetrios Drystellas is working on a project which is about a different visual guide of Athen. The viewer can follow the landscape and landmarks of Athens that are recognizable to anyone who ever visited the city. But also showing all the beauty of the city, so not just ancient Athens, but also the modern site too with all the concrete buildings and the yellow lit streets and alleys. So lets go on a night walk with beautiful model Diana Matkivskaya at Acemodels (Athens). ”In the following photos you can see the Arch of Emperor Hadrian, a 19 cent Aegean settlement nested upon the roots Acropolis, the new Acropolis Museum and the Acropolis itself as seen from the root of Philopappou hill.”
16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School
I am 28 now. I don’t think about the past or regret things much these days. But sometimes I wish that I had known some of things I have learned over the last few years a bit earlier.
5 Reasons Listicles Are Here to Stay, and Why That's OK
Image: IS/Getty Lists are everywhere. They’re the bread and butter of sites like Cracked and BuzzFeed, and regular content or sporadic filler at dozens more. (Yes, even WIRED.) From the multimedia gallery to the humble top 10, list-format articles — listicles — are rapidly becoming the lingua franca of new-media journalism. They’ve met with no end of resistance from the old guard, cantankerous readers and old-school journalists convinced that listicles (and their admittedly unfortunate portmanteau) are rotting our brains, destroying our attention spans, and generally contributing to the decay of all that is right and good.
How to avoid the biggest interview mistakes
Can you do the job? Do you want the job? Will you fit in? These are the three most important questions for an interviewer. Avoid the mistakes that will make your answers to them sound like a "no".
