Final Project Ideas

It’s going to take a fair bit of thoughtful exploring to come up with some good ideas for my final project. I will start by answering the questions to generate ideas. I believe open journalism has become harder and harder to find with the emergence of entrepreneurial journalism. I really can’t point out one specific way in which journalism is the same. The Melanie Sill reading states that you can find open journalism outside the mainstream media. Although the mainstream media was never comprised of open journalism, it did at one time include it. One example of entrepreneurial journalism I found inspiring is the Spanish site: eldiario.es. I think it’s a very cool form of entrepreneurial journalism. They have a group of people that pay for exclusive access to their content hours before it goes public. The public site is free, so really what these people are doing by paying this fee is supporting this non-partisan news site. I’m confident I’ll be able to use my own passions and interests to develop a solid final project idea. Looking through people’s past projects, I can see that is what pretty much everybody did. Over the last four months, fitness has become a big interest of mine. If all things fail, I can definitely see me doing something with that; however, I have one big idea that I will save for the end. The part of the design thinking process I think I’m going to do well with is empathizing. I’m a very empathetic person. When empathizing with others, you see their problems. I will be inclined to solve that problem. The moment of truth: here’s my main idea for my final project. A news site that covers all the main news outlets. These massive news conglomerates have so much influence and spread the news of everything, but nobody’s covering what’s going on with them. That would be my job.