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The results from my Facebook poll over news consumption.

-By: Amanda Pinney

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News Engagement Day Reflection

I had a wonderful time working with our team of editors as we managed the blog posts and reached out to the public on social media. I really felt like we worked as a team and connected with each other as we gathered the pieces of information everyone collected.

It was interesting for me to see how my Facebook poll asking people how they consume news correlated with the data done by the Pew Research Center in regard to millennial news consumption in 2016. As the data suggests, millennials consume most of their news through social media and news apps, and 66.7% of my poll responses pointed to just that. It was eye-opening to see firsthand just how digital we have become as I watched the numbers for the social media option grow throughout the day.

I think News Engagement Day was most definitely a success. It was awesome to see social media users engaging with our polls and surveys to express their news platform preference. We connected with the public and got people thinking about how they consume news in their everyday lives, and that’s always a victory for a journalist.

-Amanda Pinney

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A Reflection on Today’s Assignment

This morning/afternoon, I had the opportunity to work with my fellow editors as we managed our news engagement blog.

I had a blast coordinating with our teams of journalists in the field, and the flood of multimedia information they kept sending back to the newsroom was incredible. It was exciting to monitor and consolidate the activity and feedback that took over Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr; unsurprisingly, social media proved to be a key platform for our news consumer subjects and our own team throughout the day. I do wish that there had been less of a disconnect between our lab group and the other groups, however. While we occasionally reblogged/retweeted each other’s posts and tweets, I felt like we didn’t connect as much on a grand scale.

All in all, I would say News Engagement Day was a success! Not to mention the fact that our lovely head editor, Lourdes Cueva Chacón, gave us food while we worked. You just can’t go wrong with free food.

Excellent work, team! The blog looks great!

-Anna Maria Ward

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This is Hannah, Adam, and Shelby...

...and we are at Littlefield Patio asking students about their experience with news for News Engagement Day. 

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Hello!

We are a group of UT Journalism students that will be live blogging during Oct. 4 for News Engagement Day. #NewsEngagementDay encourages journalism students to utilize all aspects of social media to successfully report and broadcast questions we find news worthy. Four teams will relay information here to our tumblr consisting of video, pictures and quotes, and a podcast. Our reporters will be asking several questions to the UT community. We are interested on knowing about impact of news in people’s lives and how people consume news.

Follow our reporters on Twitter:

@annamariaward  @amanda_pinney @rominacl_6  @bana_nancy  @callmesteph_19  @trentdaeschner  @r_larkintexas  @zachcaldwell_ @macyloulou  @hannahdragomer  @adam_homeyer  @shelbyyylain  @uvmakeup  @cuevacha

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