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Follow and Evaluate Multimedia Journalist: Jemele Hill
Jemele Hill is an American Sports journalist who currently writes for The Atlantic and co-hosts Vice’s Cari & Jemele (Won’t) Stick to Sports. Jemele worked nearly 12 years for the sports conglomerate ESPN ad wrote a column for ESPN.com’s Page and formerly hosted ESPN’s His and Hers.
Hill is one of the most inspiring black journalists today, especially since she is a double minority – being an African-American and a woman. Hill’s career inspires me as she worked her way to the top of the journalistic totem pole through hard work and dedication.
Hill started her career as a general assignment sports writer for the Raleigh News & Observer. From 1999-2005, she became a sports writer with the Detroit Free Press, where she covered Michigan State football and basketball. During her time at the Free Press, she covered the 2004 Summer Olympics and the NBA Playoffs. Hill Worked hard during this time frame and obtained a job at the Orlando Sentinel from 2005-2006.
Through all of her accomplishments and accolades, the work that touched me the most by Jemele Hill was her tribute to the late NBA Legend Kobe Bryant in an article published in The Atlantic entitled “The Kobe I Knew Became a Champion for Others.”
Hill’s soliloquy about Kobe Bryant was beautiful as she elected to discard the traditional inverted pyramid seen in journalism and elected to tell her own personal narrative. She introduced the story stating her first real interaction with Kobe Bryant how they disagreed about dismissive comments toward the 2014 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
One important component about Hill’s text that is important to note is that she did not use many in-text pictures of Kobe Bryant nor did she reference the video where she explained the dispute on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.
Posting the video as an in-text link would have made the post more emotional and surreal during her soliloquy of the late Kobe Bryant. The piece written by Jemele Hill is one of the most eye-opening and emotional pieces that I have ever read.
She continued in her story by stating she interviewed Kobe Bryant for the BET Awards prior to his final season in the NBA. She was successful in giving a brief history of Bryant’s accolades and his life after basketball.
Jemele Hill has always been adamant about her opinions and views. In September 2017, Hill created a series of tweets regarding former President Donald Trump, including the proclamation that he was a “white supremacist.” Trump demanded an apology and other political entities said it was a “fireable offense for ESPN.”
From my perspective, Hill’s bravery and poise as an African-American journalist and woman who is not afraid to defy the ethics of journalism and speak her mind for the greatest good of her people. I aspire to write my stories like Jemele Hill and become the multimedia personality that she has grown to be. She embodies the ethics of moral journalism, spirituality, and love for all mankind … even at the expense of her career.
To read the story about Kobe Bryant visit: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/kobe-bryant-i-knew/605560/
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Social media has been so popular when it comes to makeup, fashion and just cosmetics in general. So many people have set out to make a difference in the beauty world. Many people are using the social media platform YouTube to record themselves doing makeup or either hair and people have been watching and staying in tune with them. Youtube has been a big platform for people in the makeup and hair industry because people actually learn from these artist and then get good at it and pass it on to the next person who wants to learn.
For example arrogant tae who is a public figure who does really good hair has flourished in this industry because of social media and people sharing his work on YouTube and etc. Now he has gotten so big that he has met and has even had the opportunity to do so many celebrities hair and be apart of so many projects. He was also able to be all his other friends and family on to the business so that everyone can get into the industry and learn.
This goes to show that social media works so fast because another thing is that it used to be mandatory for people to have a license to do your hair or makeup now if people see your work on social media and like It they just come to you and get it done and pay you. That is how good social media works.
Without Digital Media Project
Being without my social media for 12-hours was definitely not as easy as I thought it would it be.
I use my phone more than I actually thought and especially social media. I didn’t even know where to find a newspaper honestly, I was so bored and didn’t know what to do without any of these things. Usually if I’m not on my phone, I’m on my computer and not being able to do that made me realize that I need more hobbies.
I did find that looking at a magazines and being on the phone was nice. I really enjoyed the magazine. It was very entertaining, especially with me not having none of my social media to look at things. I was thinking most of the time how people managed to live without digital media back in the old days.
Unlike the older generation who is satisfied with life without any digital media, I found myself extremely bored after working on this project for many hours.
I realize that I belong to a new generation. If I were born around that time like older people, I would find reading magazines and listening to the radio just as entertaining as being on my phone scrolling on social media.
I am actually really happy when I tried to live for 12 hours without any digital media in my life. The experiment helped me realize a lot about my daily life and what I could be doing in the future. It was a very nice experience. I really got the feel of life without technology and social media.
Before I worked on this project, I thought I wouldn’t like trying to live without any media devices in hand. Now, when I look back, I feel how big a role modern media is playing in my life. Maybe I should try to use less digital media?
Critique of Social Media Policy
I believe the New York Times’ social media policy (see below) was pretty good. It had a lot of informative information and different articles to look into. It was very diverse. It wasn’t just focused on one thing. That is what I really enjoyed about their policy. It was very interesting to look at and read. The social media guidelines made some good points about why social media was so important to the newspaper.
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