Trip to the News Sentinel

My trip to the Knoxville News Sentinel started off a little rocky as me and Kelly J. entered the building extra late. As we past the News Sentinel building on the interstate we could see how beautiful the building looked, but we knew we were going the wrong way. Finally we pull up to the building and we were at least 20 minutes late. The building from the outside looked outstanding. It was built to perfection and a made a big statement on how they feel about news.

The people in the newsroom seemed very nice and hard at work. The areas where they worked all had their own special touch to them that showcased who worked at that station. The news room was phenomenal. They had state of the art everything. I don't think anything in the entire News Sentinel was out dated. The had plenty of meeting areas and tools that could be used to produce the best news.

Sadly to say I was late and didn't get anyone's name except for Jack Lail. I remember how Jack was telling us about how it was to write for the paper back in the early 80's. He said they used type writers and had big sheets of paper that would connect everything together for the story. From the way he was explaining the early days of journalism, I'm glad things have advanced.

The online producers said that the things that we are learning in our journalism class today will be outdated by the time we graduate. This shows that technology is ever changing and has to get more advanced every year. It seems that more information is going to have to be learned in different job areas to keep up with the changing times.

The online producers also talked about the different features that the Knoxville News Sentinel has to offer. Not only do they have a website, but text messaging, and blogs are used to get news to all types of people. The News Sentinel is trying to get their news out to everyone by using the technologies that most people are using to get news. Everyone may not want to look a newspaper, so the News Sentinel has made it possible to get news to everyone, anywhere.

I believe that the Knoxville News Sentinel takes the news more serious than any other news paper that I have heard of. I could tell by the people that worked there and the way the building looked that the news being reported was serious business. The multimedia manager even said that other news papers across the country didn't stack up to the News Sentinel.