Hello My name is Katelyn Black and I am in the Multimedia Journalism Masters program here in Portland. I hail from the far-away and sunny skies of Arizona. I earned a bachelors in Electronic Media and Film from Northern Arizona University in the beautiful mountain town of Flagstaff, Arizona. While studying at NAU, I worked as a backpack journalist, news producer, and weekly anchor for our local television station NAZ Today. For a while, I thought that I wanted to continue my career in broadcast journalism as a video journalist; but through my time spent at the news station, I quickly realized that I wanted to stray away from the typical ‘nightly news’ stories. Too much time spent covering burglaries, accidents, and homicides and I feared that this is what my perception of reality would become.
I have a particular interest in emerging digital media and what it will mean for storytelling in the future. I believe that people will look back on this time in the history of mankind as the time of overwhelming and life-changing technological advancements. As we are all communicators in some form or another, this will mean a lot for the future of how we tell stories, how we interact within the stories, and how we are able to change the overall outcome of the story.
We currently live in the single most open time for information, which is both exciting, and terrifying. It would be so interesting to go back in time to see how people would respond to the level of openness we currently exhibit, while struggling to maintain that privacy is important (it is, but wow are we backwards about it sometimes).
I really do need to get better at writing in a journal so that in 10 or twenty years I can look back and get a clearer picture of what todays social structures, and norms will feel like to future me.