By Juanita Cardona The world is increasingly connected, and social media is at the forefront of that growth, participating as a medium for communication and the chance to reach a global audience with just the touch of a few buttons. Readers and viewers are now on the other end of a touch screen. They are…
By Nathalie Del Valle The holidays arrived once again and families prepare to gather and catch up and bond with each other. However, the living room is almost completely silent as a few adults chat in the kitchen and the youngest members of the family sit silent on the couches, hypnotized by their devices. Now, the…
By Christian Steiner & Kaitlyn Pujols A little over a year ago, The Harbinger hosted their first #ISISCrisis twitter chat. Now we are on our second outing with the same hashtag, raising lively discussion on many of the same issues from a year ago: vetting of refugees, military action, should there be boots on the…
By Juanita Cardona “To become a good journalist you need to write and read, read and write,” said Sergio Bustos. Sergio Bustos, a political journalist for The Associated Press, is the son of Chilean immigrant parents and an immigrant himself. He attended The Virginia Commonwealth University where he received his Bachelor of Science, and Mass…
The changes made for Snapchat was received with mixed responses from users with the disappearance of the Best Friends lists, but was met with excitement over with the addition of Snapchat Discover. By Vivian Bermudez On January 27th, 2015, Snapchat released a new update for their app – both for Android and Apple products. The…