I have always been a keen writer. However as I do not enjoy writing essays I have longed for something more creative. Finally after nearly three years at University I get the chance to do an intensive course on on-line journalism and blogging. Learning about contemporary new media has become an interest for me, developed over the last few years. As new media and online journalism has become a more obvious way of getting news across the wide borders of the world we have been bombarded with instant news, of what ( unfortunately) is most often published, horrors of the world around us. This I want to be a part of and I am therefore very glad to be a part of this course. I am hoping to get the tools to understand about the many ways we can use new media and in this case blogging. I am looking forward to proceed on this journey learning about how to influence the media today.