"Journalism can’t be journalism until it’s published.”

So far in my college journey I have studied communication. In my studies I have taken classes on journalism, and really looked deeper into journalism than I ever thought was possible. On the surface it seems that journalism is simply the presentation of facts about an event. I mean that's what we all read in the paper, so that has to be all journalism is, right?

Wrong. Journalism, I have learned, goes so much deeper than facts. There's ethical questions to consider, biases, and much more. In many people's thinking journalism is meant to depict an event as accurately as it happened. This is the traditional print news that men and women across America read while drinking their morning coffee. This is the journalism that has been presented to consumers for the past years.

However, this kind of thinking is becoming increasingly outdated. Many news sources are converting from actual papers to being strictly an online news source. With the social media movement it seems that every post, tweet, and update is journalism. These social media sources are considered journalism under microblogging (posting content in small and concise manners, such as in a tweet).

Because these tweets, updates, and posts are published they absolutely are journalism. I don't believe that something unpublished can be considered journalism. Journalism is meant to be informative and is meant to be read. I think something that is unpublished is a collection of writings, while they may be informative they were not shared. Without being shared they have not served the purpose of journalism, therefore I believe cannot be considered as a piece of journalism.