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Convergent Journalism

Convergent journalism is the use of several different media types to produce a story for the people. The article written by Robert Niles was definitley an example of this. The article had stated that a number of media outlets from Southern California made use of Google’s My Maps application to inform the public about wildfires that had been occurring in the vicinity. The residents of Southern California, instead of having to wait for their news channel to report what locations were in danger, what injuries occurred, or where the fire was moving, were able to access all this information with the click of a mouse. It helped the public find out information that they may have been left in the dark about. The Google maps that we as a class produced, was an example of convergent journalism as well. We were provided with information such as names, hometowns, and majors, and were able to report it to the masses by placing the information in our maps.