https://partnews.mit.edu/2014/02/12/alexs-media-diary/ Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Wed, 12 Feb 2014 05:46:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 https://partnews.mit.edu/2014/02/12/alexs-media-diary/#comment-24424 Tue, 04 Mar 2014 17:05:12 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=3402#comment-24424 […] I read her four-hour challenge with Elissar Harati and her media diary.  In her diary, she wrote – “My coursework at Fletcher keeps me reading hard copies. I spent approximately 8 hours on offline texts (I’m including my Kindle in this, but that might be a stretch). This material is predominately made up of books and journal articles related to my research and coursework at Fletcher. I’m not sure if this offline consumption is driven by the environment of being in graduate school, but it certainly cuts into the news consumption time that I spend online and on current events. It’s interesting that while I do consume offline media, very little of that media is news; rather, it is longer magazine or academic articles or books [15].” […]

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