By Laura Medina
After everyone grabbed their swag bag, goody bags on steroids jam packed with stuff you can use (Hollywood perk), TMZ’s reporter Charlie Neff discusses how social media changed the hierarchy of celebrities, fame, popularity, boundaries, navigating, and entertainment reporting.
With the ease and proliferation of phones and social media, Charlie sadly talked about the demise of traditional red carpet reporting on E! Network.
As a Broadcast Journalism major, Charlie was saddened by the news, but wasn’t surprised.
Those more traditional entertainment reporting was what Charlie was trained for and was aiming for, when she got her feet wet being a blogger on the red carpet, building her resume and hustling; and her microphone wasn’t working.
She came of age in the thick of social media, where she gets two of her friends into the parties. Then, one of them takes still photos of Charlie when the other friend films videos of her reporting on the red carpet or partying up at the premiere and after-parties.
Charlie plays the new rules of the new media game.
Her blogging and sharp, quick news breaks, are landed her on TMZ, just like that.
Once in and on TMZ, Charlie has to deftly navigate sad or sensitive breaking news, such as Matthew Perry’s death.
She discusses off the clock, time-off boundaries when established and rising stars or wannabe stars try to use her, at their convenience when she simply needs a break. Hello?! Cocktail in hand.
Once Charlie is done discussing how entertainment journalism has evolved, her journalism journey, and setting boundaries. Charlie Neff simply went home.
“What She Said” has wrapped for another year.
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