This essay will discuss how different journalist use things such as social media, cv’s and portfolios to promote themselves. I will look at people such as Dom Howson, Joe Crann and Robert Hollingowrth to see how they use these thing to interact with people and to see how they use it to show their best work.
Dom Howson is very active on social media, it’s the main way people are able to see his content. He uses things like twitter to interact with people. He also uses social media to produce stats and do video reports before and after games. For example after games he will stay behind and do a video or a live stream giving a run down on the game and his thoughts. Dom also host a podcast which he promotes through twitter like most of his work.
Another thing he uses twitter for it to publish team news and selections on a match day. He reports live from press conferences and keeps fans up today throughout the week on whats happening with Sheffield Wednesday.
Joe Crann has is own website to promote himself. It gives people a chance to see what sort of work he does and find out more about him. Joe is a sports reporter from Sheffield who lives in south Africa so having a website allows people to understand what he does and how He got to where he is. He also has a partnership with Betway where he has a bet of the weekend. he uses twitter to promote there betting app and get people to bet through them and in return hell probably receive money. This is another positive of social media as h’es earning money from it.
Joe also uses social media a lot as he reports on most of the South African football teams. he interacts with other football fans through twitter as well. He often uses twitter to give people stats on upcoming games and to let his audience aware of any braking news.
His website also gives people a chance to contact him. For example if they’d like to work with him or would like to ask him a question his website gives people that opportunity.
Robert Hollingowrth is a freelance photographer. he is not very active on social media however he has a website that he keeps up to date regularly. it is important as a free lance photographer that he publishes his best work on his website so that potential employers can see what he can do.
In conclusion social media seems one of the best ways to promote yourself although Cv’s and portfolios are important. Using social media is vital as these days it is where you will build most of your following or readers. By constantly keeping platforms such as twitter, instagram and facebook updated it allows your audience to see what you are doing and to interact with you.
Depending on which part of journalism you work in some things can be more important than others, for example for Robert Hollingworth its vital he has an up to date website as its where people will see his best work and can find out how to contact him as a freelance photographer ,whereas for Dom he must use social media to get his work out there quickly such as breaking news.
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