Keenan Ingram Mobile Journalism April 14 2018 For my mobile and social media strategy analysis I followed the news station WSOC and two of its on-air talent, reporter Gina Esposito(@GinaWSOC9 @ginawsoc9) and anchor/reporter Brittney Johnson(@Brittyoureon, @BrittneyWSOC9) from wsoc 9. During this assignment tracking Gina and Brittney I noticed that Twitter seems to be the most active and used platform. Both Brittney and Gina’s twitter pages were strictly business for example on these pages you will see a lot of breaking stories and trending news. In doing this assignment I was able to get in touch with anchor/ reporter Brittney Johnson and was able to interview her about certain topics. Including, social media guidelines for her job, and how her and the company uses social media. Brittney also shared some interesting things about life at WSOC relating to her job from reporting to the evolution of social media, and company guidelines when it comes to their social media platf
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Villonova vs Michigan
Every year when the first Monday in April comes it is time for the men's college basketball national championship game for the NCAA tournament. A tournament that starts out with 68 d1 division teams that after 3 weekends come down to 2 teams playing for a national championship. This year national championship game featured 2 story programs in Michigan and Villanova. According to ESPN Medcalf, M "Michigan was seeking there 2 national title first since 1989." "While Villanova was seeking its 3 national title overall and 2 title in the last 3 years." Michigan was overmatched last night by a superior Villanova team that was clicking all tournament. With Villanova behind one of there players Donte DiVincenzo coming off the bench scoring 31 points to help Villanova win with the final score of 79-62. Michigan on the other hand championship woes and drought not winning a title since 1989 continues. While according to ESPN "Villanova was the first team since the
NCAA Touranment first weekend anaylsis
Keenan Ingram Blog post 3 March 19, 2018 Every year in March we have the much-anticipated NCAA tournament also referred to as "March madness". Tournament of 68 D1 schools have a chance to compete for a chance to win a national championship. Every year people in America including myself fills out a tournament bracket predicting what teams we think we win there matchups and advance to each round to a eventual champion. Every year we have what we call is upsets when a lower rank seed or even a smaller school at times beats the bigger name school. It happens every single tournament when a highly rank seeded school gets beat by a lower rank school or a smaller ranked school. It unpredictable which adds to the intensity of March madness part of the reason people tune in to it so see what will happen. This year first weekend of the NCAA tournament is like every year where a bunch of upsets happens, and different Cinderella's appear. Some of the big powerhouse
NCAA PROBE
For 2 years the FBI has been investigating illegal acts as far as college basketball players accepting bribes, coaches doing illegal acts to guarantee that a recruit comes to there school. The NCAA makes millions of dollars but got exposed last week by the FBI, the NCAA has a very big problem when it comes to one and done. Money being made due to sponsors, shoe companies and other endorsements for the school, these highly talented kids being influence by agents and coaches. Automatically all of this leads to what we now have as NCAA probe scandal. What makes this more disturbing is this isn't mid major schools involved in this scandal. Its some of the biggest college basketball schools in the country such as Unc, Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, Texas, and least 20 big programs involved . Some players former and current that attended these schools names came up in the FBI findings for a possible violations. Such as taking large amount of money from a agent or receiving gifts which is a v
SuperBowl Aftermath
Hello my name is Keenan Ingram on this lovely February morning. First off i want to say what a game that super bowl was explosive with a ton of offense and a lot of excitement. Tom Brady who is consider by some the goat (Greatest of all time) when it comes to football didn't disappoint at all. He threw for a mind blogging 505 yards and 3 touchdowns breaking the record for passing yards in a playoff game and super bowl history. Or even Nick Foles the backup replacing Carson Wentz who tore his acl week 14. Nick Foles being counted out and disrespected silenced his critics throwing for 373 yards and 3 touchdowns. Including the go ahead score with 2:21 one left in the fourth quarter that eventually lead them to victory. Shout out to the Philadelphia Eagles for pulling of the unthinkable and shocking the world and finishing off there miracle season with a win vs the Patriots in dramatic fashion. But as many would celebrate or be happy the eagles winning as the underdog for New Engla