Last week, I had the opportunity of a lifetime when I received a press pass to cover President Obama's speech at Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth. The experience was amazing in itself, being able to hear Obama speak, but what really stuck out to me was looking around at all the different journalists and thinking about how different the media section would have been, say, ten years ago. Journalists walked in with their laptops and instantly set up at tables inside the media section, typing their notes. Many members of the media seemed glued to their phones, many of them young, tweeting live updates from the event and putting up pictures from the crowd online.
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| I like to pretend he was waving at me |
Throughout the speech, there were a slew of tweets with quotes from Obama, or updates about who was speaking. I tweeted a few of Obama's quotes and was surprised to see how many people instantly retweeted me. That kind of instant journalism made it so anyone with access to "#Obama" could be a part of the event by just holding their phone in their hand, miles and miles away. So while I felt like I had the greatest opportunity in being able to attend the speech, I also appreciated the accessibility those who couldn't go had through the constant social media updates from various mediums.
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