Steve Molk

For our final lecture we had a guest speaker, Steve "Molk" Molkington. He is a very professional, online journalist and spoke to us about the platforms of online journalism.
He also has is own website: http://molkstvtalk.com/ which posts many interesting stories.
Since hearing him speak, I've taken the liberty of further looking into online news journalism and work that he's done.
Being in an online medium seems to be quite a difficult/high maintenance area.

• You need to be connected, and heavily. Steve has accounts in practically every form of social networking available. 
• You need to stay up-to-date with everything. You must be at the forefront of all breaking stories because online is where it's happening.
• You have to be able to maintain your contacts. Which involves a lot of time and organisation.You have to be there online doing everything you can, but also not offending anyone with your opinions. 

In all honesty, being localised online seems like an immense balancing act which leaves not a lot of time for getting out into the real world (off the computer). 

After his lecture, I feel more intimidated than inspired to go after this kind of platform in journalism. But it was certainly an interesting experience.