Hey MCOM 258

For those of you who have not met me before, my name is Benjamin Knepp and I just finished my junior year of college, and my first year here at Towson. I come from the rural and peaceful Garrett County, MD, and transferred to Towson from Garrett College. My hometown of Oakland, MD (and the surrounding lands) makes a plethora of appearences in this blog. I am currently a MCOM major here at Towson in the journalism and new media track.

As apparent from this blog, I have a passion for photography. Almost all of the images in this blog tell a story about myself. This is what I love about it; the ability that one image has to narrate an entire story. What I do in this blog is to relate to the readers the stories that the images hold for me. For every picture I take, I want to be able to relate the readers the stories behind them, and the feelings behind each image that means a lot to me and who I am.

And so photojournalism is my favorite way to tell stories. This is what I wish to incorporate into my news beat for MCOM 258. I want to report on and write about individuals who share my passion for telling stories fwith images. I think that the most important part of journalism is the storytelling aspect of it, and images are vital in doing this. I will create a new blog for this specific beat when I start reporting on it, and will let announce the web adress as soon as I start.

From this class, I want to most of all build on my knowledge of all the technology that goes into multimedia storytelling that is so dominant in journalism today. I hope to increase my ability to incorporarate audio, film, and images in order to create effective news stories. Also, I want to be able to learn the differences in writing stories for different media platforms, such as blogs, online, and broadcast journalism. In this class, I will improve my abilities for writing across all the different platforms.