Michael King

New Survey Show’s People’s Opinion on the General State of Public Health

This week, I set up my first survey. While I’ve crowdsourced in other ways, I felt this way was the most effective. I was very pleased with the number of participants. I was able to get 95 responses. These are the questions I put on the survey, and the results for each one laid outContinue reading “New Survey Show’s People’s Opinion on the General State of Public Health”

Mapping Assignment

What to Expect from my Website

Make Healthy Happen Getting healthy is easier when you know what to do. My project’s mission is to help people get into shape by laying out the best ways for them to do so. The website will provide plans for people based on their specific information (gender, goal, etc.). I feel like I could workContinue reading “What to Expect from my Website”

Read, watch, think, write.

Experts claim that it is our duty as journalists to include all aspects of the human experience. Stereotyping can cause our work to be inaccurate and must be avoided at all costs. It suggests to not focus on bad news or problems, but also creative ideas on how to solve them. I learned about theContinue reading “Read, watch, think, write.”

Captions make the Photo

Empathy Research Summary

What topic, community, problem, issue or “thing” did you decide to explore? Who did you decide you should talk to, observe, interview to learn more about this? Be specific. (I am asking you to talk to at least 5 different people for this assignment) What methods did you use to talk with people? (Focus groups, planed interviews,Continue reading “Empathy Research Summary”

Taking to the Media for Fitness

Fitness Healthy Plan Into Your Daily Routine

The problem that faces society that I would like to tackle with my website is physical health. I will first say that I am by no means at a healthy weight, but I was once much heavier than I am now. I still have a long way to go, but I’ve lost about 45 poundsContinue reading “Fitness Healthy Plan Into Your Daily Routine”

What’s Your Problem?

I believe the news outlets of the world hold people accountable and keep people up to date on what’s going on. The problem is nobody holds these news outlets accountable or keeps us informed on what’s going on with them. A solution is the way to solve a problem. Sometimes solutions can be problematic, butContinue reading “What’s Your Problem?”

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 specificContinue reading “Final Project Ideas”