Within our course textbook, Writing & Reporting the News (WaRN), the first chapter looked at how to conceptualize this idea of news today and consider the various forms, terminology, and progression it has taken. One thing that I was very interested in from our last reading by Carey and found myself drawn to within this chapter was the concept of immediacy in the news. As the chapter outlines on numerous occasions, simply the form of our news changing from solely print to print and digital to now mostly digital and to go one step further, via social media, brought up the idea of how our priorities surrounding news/journalism may have shifted. As the chapter alleges, should we have immediacy at the expense of “accuracy, thoroughness, and fairness…”(8)? Thinking back to even just the last 20 years, I believe there is a conversation to be had regarding values such as this — is that immediacy and incredible access that has ensued worth perhaps less in-depth, authoritative pieces? Another section within Chapter 1 I found compelling was the conversation around hard vs. soft news as it relates to some of what we discussed in class – there is the news that saves thousands from an earthquake, and there is the news from the Cannes Film Festival. But what I found interesting and in the spirit of intersectionality was how they can complement each other and perhaps even in the same story. It brings to mind the recent Oscars, undoubtedly soft news, with Lily Gladstone being the first Native American to be nominated for a lead role, which also brings in the potential to highlight some hard news on the state of Indigenous peoples of this country and their struggles. I like to think that journalism can still provide a space to deliver the most accurate sense of reporting but can expand into making those artistic writing maneuvers to shed light on deeper issues.