Online Journalism

So we have been given the task by NAMI Northern VA to come up with a way to display the history and current information of NAMI. Right now here’s what we know so far: NAMI or the National Alliance on Mental Illness (Northern Virginia portion) started in the 1970′s when they were their own organization […]

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Summary: Audio can just be as compelling as video or photos in online journalism. Tone can convey emotions, and sound can be layered on top of a visual medium to effectively tell a story. Being able to capture, edit and broadcast an audio file should be in the tool box of any online journalist. If […]

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“The speed of communications is wonderful to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.” News is distributed, as Edward Murrow stated above, by conversation. Here are some steps to achieve that: Making conversation News as a conversation has transformed journalism. Most significantly, it […]

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Dan Rather, former CBS anchor and current managing editor and anchor for HDNet, joined George Mason students Feburary 24th in a C-Span interview. Tucker Carlson, a correspondent for Fox News who is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller, was also a guest on the show. Rather and Carlson spoke mainly of the state […]

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Geeks Are Freaks By Brandi Morehead / Sex Columnist There was a time when the first thing that came to mind when I heard the word “geek” was Steve Urkel. Now, it’s sex on a stick. Think about it. Guys that have that geek persona about them usually go above and beyond to catch a […]

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In the middle of the turmoil after the assassination of the president John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, millions sat in front of televisions to watch the announcement of the president’s death. There Dan Rather was in Dallas, Tx., suppressing all of his emotions to focus only on giving every little detail of the […]

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Dan Rather, a former CBS Evening news anchor and current host of Dan Rather Reports, was in a C-SPAN video conference with students from George Mason University, University of Denver, Purdue University and Georgetown University on February 24, 2011. Rather commented on his 50-plus-years in journalism, a career that includes coverage on pivotal American news […]

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“American journalism needs a spine transplant. We need guts and courage to come back into journalism,” announced Dan Rather to the C-Span viewers on February 24, 2010. Throughout the interview, Rather emphasized the point that journalism is different than it used to be, no longer do we have the checks and balance system that the […]

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There’s no denying that the face of journalism is ever-changing, especially with the advent of social media in the past five years or so. What was once considered a trendy fad for college students has migrated into the professional realm, with journalists and public relations professionals at the forefront. One of the main uses for […]

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  Copyright: people.com “American journalism, in many ways, needs a spine transplant,” Rather said, “We’ve lost some of the grit in our gut.” This was just one of the many things that Dan Rather had to say about being a journalist and where journalism is in our current social media frenzy of a world. On […]

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