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Entries from March 29th, 2011

Guest Speaker- Mark Potts

March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest Speaker- Mark Potts · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

“Wikipedia is a great news source” TBD is a lot better than Patch.com “Do what you do best and link to the rest” I don’t do this for money, I do it for respect in my community. Classic stories you see in hyper-local journalism, “What is the vacant BlockBuster store going to turn into?” “RSS, […]

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Tech Blog #11: Guest Speaker Mark Potts, Owner of RecoveringJournalist.com

March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #11: Guest Speaker Mark Potts, Owner of RecoveringJournalist.com · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

“We haven’t fully taken advantage of the medium,” said Mark Potts, commenting on the vast world of the Internet. Mark Potts, creator of RecoveringJournalist, his blog, came in to speak to our class today! He offered some useful opinions on great ways to tell stories. Potts began with Patch.com. “It’s important because it’s close to […]

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Chapter 9: Data-Driven Journalism and Digitizing Your Life

March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 9: Data-Driven Journalism and Digitizing Your Life · Comm361, New York Times, Student Blog Posts

Digital life is based upon a gratuitous amount of information and data; therefore, managing the data is the most critical part of digital life in journalism. Organized data not only helps journalists retrieve their memories from certain events via computer-assisted reporting, but also helps keeping in contact with colleagues and people of interest, and even […]

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Skype session with Kevin Anderson

March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Skype session with Kevin Anderson · Comm361, Storify, Student Blog Posts

Courtesy of his Twitter; Kevin Anderson: Digital strategist and freelance journalist with more than a decade experience with the Guardian and the BBC. Helping create the future of journalism. FOLLOW HIM ON TWITTER! On Thursday, March 24, 2011, Anderson skyped in to chat! Being half way accross the world didn’t stop him from making his […]

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Briggs Chapter 10

March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Chapter 10 · Comm361, Facebook, Student Blog Posts

Managing News as a Conversation “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.” -Edward R. Murrow It began as comments on news stories and blog posts, this has mushroomed into full social networking tools on news sites. […]

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Briggs Chapter 7

March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Chapter 7 · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Making Audio Journalism Visible Audio Journalism? It works when using a few tools like a microphone or recorder to make full-featured segments that sound like radio epidodes. You can distribute them as podcosts to gain an audience! Importance: Presence Emotions Atmosphere How to use this audio?  Reporter overview Podcasts Audio slide show Breaking news National Public Radio has […]

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