In my group’s story we covered what the “new normal” is in a post-pandemic world. Through it we used Twitter and Instagram to heavily promote our story with pictures, videos, and graphics. While working on this our blog titled “The New Normal: COVID Edition” we found that social media was a very effective way to drive traffic to our post. Social media is an essential tool in journalism today and without it stories wouldn’t get as many hits and would cause advertisers to pull funding for stories. It’s close to impossible to get attention to things these days without some form of social media tied to it. Working on “The New Normal: COVID Edition’ has helped me learn how multi-talented modern journalists need to be just to post one story. They need to be a writer, photographer, editor and social media wizard to put forth and effective story. So much work is put into a single aspect of a story, even with a group as big as ours there were still struggles and to think one person is usually responsible for all parts is baffling. Being a journalists is not an easy job with it requiring so many multiple high levels of skills to be a great and well rounded journalist. In the end it helped show me how much I need to grow in all areas of journalism.