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Entries from March 20th, 2011

Chapter 9: data-driven journalism and digitizing your life

March 20th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 9: data-driven journalism and digitizing your life · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

We live online. If we live online, we need organize ourselves online. There is a lot of information out on the internet. The more info, the better we have to learn how to filter it. It’s a personal and professional challenge, but you have to keep up with the web. How much data can you handle? […]

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Briggs Review 8: Video journalism

March 20th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Review 8: Video journalism · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts, video

Video journalism is an important way of telling a news story, whether its breaking news or a documentary, but there are a few different approaches. The biggest question one might ask is how much the quality of the video matters, and the answer is not much: “…the audience for video has become extremely forgiving and […]

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Briggs 10: The Socialization of News

March 20th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs 10: The Socialization of News · briggs, Comm361, social media, Student Blog Posts

THE DIGITAL AGE has socialized news, which means that the people who read the news are now the people who also take part in it. “[…] information wants to be analyzed, shared, synthesized, curated, aggregated, commented on and distributed. Even journalists feeling overwhelmed by new technology can see that more interaction with the audience carries […]

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