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Can we trust the News anymore?

After 80 years of publication, Newsweek officially announced that all formats news will be exclusively online as oppose to the traditional print that readers grew to love. Some such as at the University of Minnesota's School of Journalism and Mass Communication Assistant Professor  Shayla Thiel-Stern we’re displeased by this announcement because of the endangerment the internet has on journalism. "There's often a negotiation happening when they do; if a story is not verified with reliable sources, should they break it on social media, for example?”, Stern claims. This announcement has incorporate toward the ongoing debate of social media having an effect on journalism has played a monumental role on the world since the Internet's first association with humanity in the early-half of the 21^th century. But now, the debate has finally become obsolete. 

This is because society has welcome social media as an integration with the journalist system based off its simplification when broadcasting the news. It can be agreed upon through debate that the Internet has made reporting the news easier because accessibility of tools such as Facebook and Twitter being used to spread the word on major social events occurring either as or after it happens. New media has also created an open field of convenience with our mobile devices being integrated within the news system when reporting the news. Now at any given moment, anyone can be a journalist by capturing events as they occur, a feature that would not have been possible as little as 20 years ago because of the advancement in technology.

 Repeatable news sources like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Huffington Post have broken the barrier of traditional printing to publishing online for its effective momentum. In fact, according to an article published in The Huffington Post website, the emerging of typing is becoming more heavily active in the classroom rather than conventional writing. Senior lecturer of the University of Texas at Austin's School of Journalism Robert Quigley reports that professors are even requiring students to create a Twitter account to interact on current events as assignments. "It's important for students to be on top of this because the media industry has embraced it... Students who are comfortable with using social media in a journalistic way have a serious leg up,” Quigley states.