My news team :-)

I am currently working on a very exciting project for a module that I am doing called News Media and the Internet Society.

Basically my task was to form a news team with two other people and to then creatively create a piece that of which based on Section 16 of the Constitution, the specific focus for this task is based on Freedom of expression, more precisely freedom of the press. We had to choose a specific aspect based on Freedom of the press.

My group members and I formed a discussion with other individuals from our practical group to decide which will be our focus area. After a long discussion we realised that the best area of focus for us would be Embedded Journalism. It is an extremely current topic as well as an extremely broad based topic, that is discussed widely. It is also interesting because it is a perfect example about how far some investigative journalists are willing to go in order to provide news to us.

With Embedded journalism we get to see War in a manner that is so real, we get to observe it in it's raw state.

We have a very small news group with only three individuals, so we all have equal roles. Together we are going to generate nine reference articles and our piece will be based on our findings from these nine reference articles and we are going to work together to edit and put our article together in a beautiful flowing manner.

We will start by defining what Embedded journalism is, we will than look at ethical matters regarding Embedded journalism, as well as the dangers, the advantages and disadvantages, although my group is still in discussion as to the key elements and questions that we will be looking at. This is obviously going to be a very a very socially useful topic, because Embedded journalism is a topic of the social discussions, and it deals directly with the area of war which is a social problem.

I am hoping that my contribution to my news team is going to be very effective and useful. :-)