How Learning About The Industry Has Influenced Me

Throughout the past eight weeks, I have been learning about the history of the journalism industry. There are many things I have learnt that have given me in-depth knowledge about a subject I have never considered learning about before. Other things such as learning about women in journalism, has made appreciate how much each movement of feminism has enabled female journalists today to be able to do the work that they do. 

Learning about the history of the BBC really made me think about how diverse our media industry is now in the 21st century. We are so lucky to be able to express ourselves with a lot less censorship or legal boundaries stopping people of all races, sexualities, gender and classes being able to be involved in the media. The move towards digital has allowed people from all different backgrounds to become a journalist in some shape or form. The digitalisation of the media has meant that there more people's interests are written about and catered to than ever before. Although it has caused a significant decline in sales of physical copies of media, such as magazines and newspapers, there has been a rise in independently published magazines that have limited runs. Through social media promotion, independent magazines like Huck are able to generate interested in printed copies of their articles.