Self-Reflection

Dear Reader,

This will be the last entry for my blog and also a finish for my financial media subject. It will be a self-reflection of my development during the last twelve weeks of the course and the eleven entries that I made in my blog.

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Starting from the beginning, I must say that I never followed or let alone wrote an own blog. The thought to write a critical blog about the media coverage of different journals and newspapers, seemed to be really difficult.

During the lectures we learnt some interesting theory about the different writing styles that newspapers use. Additionally we observed that journalists mostly add their own opinion to the stories, which they are covering, to address the regular readers, who are purchasing this particular newspaper to read the opinions.

Before I attended this course I was reading news mainly from two sources, which were the Frankfurter Allgemeine and the Wall Street Journal. However during the course I started to look at other media coverage’s and sources. To follow the different stories I started reading the FT, Economist, Business Week, Spiegel and Handelsblatt, which I all included for my blog research.

It was interesting to see the difference in coverage of one story.  I recognized that the political views of the newspapers influenced the style and the view of the news. I observed that the newspapers used different quotes and different authorities and people to interview for same story covered. At the beginning I had difficulties finding this kind of differences in the story, but with the time it became very obvious in which direction the writer was trying to take the reader Therefore I developed new reading skills, which allowed me to have a clear view when analyzing news from different papers.

I can say that I really enjoyed writing the blog and I think it was a nice opportunity to enter the blogging world and being a continuous follower of different stories covered in the media. Additionally I think it was a good tool to understand the importance of critical media analysis and the connection of the media to financial topics.

I hope I created a read-worthy blog, which was trying to share some interesting articles covered in the media during the last twelve weeks, also integrating my own opinion and comments to them. It was a nice experience to learn how to use the internet to spread my opinion by using the blog as a form of communication. I believe that I developed my research and commenting skills especially through the weekly research on different topics in detail.

To conclude, it has been an exciting practice and a challenge for me to write this blog, as it was my first time to use this gadget.

Thank you all for following my blog,

E.V.