iConsume: Journalism

i) My personal consumption of journalism mainly revolves around news media and music industry publications. I do read newspapers on occasion, including my local paper and the SMH (which reminds me, I should get that subscription!), and I access news daily through the internet via Google News. Another aspect of news journalism I engage with in particular is the Sky News channel, which allows me to watch different parts of the news at whatever time I want, while reading through short articles on Sky News Interactive. To be honest though, this isn’t where my central interest lies in journalism. As an avid fan of music and everything to do with it, I breathe in free music publications such The Drum Media and The Brag every week. Go figure why I aspire to be a music journalist!

ii) I think the main language tools I use are the dictionary, usually online, and the thesaurus. Other than that, I don’t really use them, but I do feel as though I should be doing more to expand my vocabulary and improve my writing skills through language tools.

iii) As for deadlines, I find that they do add a good and very much needed amount of stress on me to actually complete a task. I have a very relaxed attitude, often times too relaxed, so deadlines are actually really useful in kicking me out of my chilled out and lazy state into doing something by a certain time! Admittedly I tend to procrastinate, but far more often than not I’m able to complete tasks by the deadline, even if with only a couple of hours to spare. I’m trying to work on getting things done way before deadlines though, I promise!