Murrow Symposium

Charlie Tillinghast, the president of MSNBC, spoke about how the creation of the internet and online news articles changed the journalism industry. He said that being a part of this phenomenon was really something special but scary at the time because online journalism put many people out of their jobs. They used facebook and twitter as a way to advertise their sites and MSNBC was the biggest one they had. They had to balance getting people to look at their ad vs. getting people to visit the site. All in all, it was a very informative talk and interesting to think about a world without online news media sources.