1. Are certain media better at conveying stories with certain types of news values? For example, is emotion easier to convey through words or moving images?

In my opinion, some media are indeed better at conveying stories with certain types of news values, such as news about things. If there are only words without pictures, readers should rely on their imagination, but maybe not all of them have such imagination or patience. If it’s a news story about a sporting event or a music festival, it’s hard to convince an audience without a live video. In this aspect, images seem to be more expressive than words, and video is even more so, but not necessarily. I always wonder why some films adapted from novels are not as impressive as the original novels, like Harry Potter, like Twilight. My feeling is that words can describe the characters’ inner scenes in a delicate way, which is also an important part of conveying emotions, and images or movies did not have the advantage. So the answer to this question is not absolute, it depends on the situation.

2. Is timeliness best suited for online?

Timeliness is an important factor to measure the value of news. It is not difficult to find that the timeliness of the Internet is stronger than that of other forms, such as print media and TV reports. As soon as something happens, the witness can take a picture and upload it to the Internet, and within a minute, the comments are flooding in. Online news is much faster than editing and then reporting it on television or writing it out in print. Not long ago, Captain America Chris Evans accidentally posted a private photo of himself, even though he deleted it a minute after posting it, the whole world learned about it. This shows how shocking the timeliness of online news is. It’s just, I think the word timeliness is used to describe news or valuable stories. Many web sites do not have the ability to filter news. If, as in my example, the Internet captures someone’s privacy or fake news, and then spreads it to everyone at a very fast rate, that’s also a very scary thing.

3. As media organizations converge, how might delivery format affect the types of information conveyed through each format?

The delivery format will influence the type of information delivered according to their different strengths. For example, sports, music, and competitive events will be delivered through videos, such as TV broadcasting and network live streaming. Network live streaming has the advantage that you can see the comments of the network audience, which makes the event more interesting and more involved. This is an increasingly common phenomenon in the development of society. But traditional media, such as print media, will not die out. For information such as biographies, it is still appropriate to write them down with pen and paper.