My name is Elizabeth Grisham and I love email.

I subscribe to many newspaper mailing lists, breaking news email bulletins and other journalism-related email newsletters. Right now, I have more than 100,000 messages–many of which fall into this category–in my personal email inbox. (Thank goodness for unlimited storage.)

I don’t have a smartphone, so I check my email only occasionally throughout the day, and I do so on a computer.

When I am not occupied with email, I am consuming other kinds of media.

For one thing, I still read print newspapers, namely Broadside and The Washington Post. I am a print journalist and I love getting newsprint on my fingers.

I started using Twitter only last Fall (2012), but now I use it daily. I use it much like an RSS reader. I subscribe to the Twitter feeds of journalists and stay up-to-date on what they are saying, learning and doing. Here is a link to my Twitter page. Follow me if you like. Please know, though, that I’m boring. I almost never tweet. Like I said, I use Twitter more to listen in on the journalism industry conversation.

RSS feeds and news websites themselves make up the next tier of my diet. I actually find Twitter easier to use at this point, so I am having a hard time getting back into my love affair with RSS (which I first began using in 2003 or 2004).

Blogs make up the top (and smallest) tier of my pyramid. I read food blogs and baby blogs. I do not really read journalism blogs, though. I suppose I am very old-fashioned that way. I think journalists ought to be conduits for their stories, not first-person voices in them. I think I may have to work on that, though.

Perhaps, then, I will have to make some changes to my media pyramid in the near future.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go check my email.