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Entries from April 4th, 2011

Briggs 4

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Briggs 2

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Response to “Mindy McAdams: reports vs. stories” review

April 4th, 2011 · Comments Off on Response to “Mindy McAdams: reports vs. stories” review · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Several weeks ago I wrote a review on Mindy McAdams article “Is your story actually a story.” In said article I discussed McAdams beliefs on novice journalists and how they have difficulty finding actual stories. I never, however, came to a conclusion on how to create or what constitutes a good “story.” In her more […]

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Timelines: bringing interactivity to reporting

April 4th, 2011 · Comments Off on Timelines: bringing interactivity to reporting · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

“A timeline is a useful — and helpful — type of information graphic, and fairly common in journalism,” Mindy McAdams When creating packages for the Internet, we often become caught up in using a one size fits all formula of a written story by accompanied several photographs, a video, or maybe even a short sound […]

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Tech blog item #10: B.J. Koubaroulis

April 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech blog item #10: B.J. Koubaroulis · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

In class this past Thursday, guest speaker BJ Koubaroulis had plenty of great things to say.  There were a lot of valid points he made, as it is tough to know when to start.  Koubaroulis is a correspondent with The Washington Post and the Play-by-Play Voice of High School and College Sports for Verizon FiOS1 Sports. He […]

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Tech blog item #9: The New York Times’ Porous Paywall

April 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech blog item #9: The New York Times’ Porous Paywall · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

According to Mark Potts’ “Recovering Journalist,” there’s a rule today that every media-business blogger has to weigh in on the New York Times’ finally announced online subscription plan.  In this blog article, Potts goes over this plan, and looks at an analysis done by Felix Salmon. The New York Times introduced this plan on Thursday.  The […]

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George Mason University and the Use of Social Media in the Case of Abdirashid Dahir

April 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off on George Mason University and the Use of Social Media in the Case of Abdirashid Dahir · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Abdirashid Dahir on Dipity. A recent post by Mindy McAdams about the use of timelines in journalism had me wanting to try out the idea. I thought the recent case of George Mason student Abdirashid Dahir would lend itself to a timeline. How quickly events happened after the Sarah Evans Facebook post would help to […]

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Tech Blog #3: What’s in Store for Apple in the Next 35 Years?

April 2nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #3: What’s in Store for Apple in the Next 35 Years? · Comm361, online journalism, Student Blog Posts

       In 1976 Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded a small company named Apple Computer.  For its first 35 years, Apple was the underdog to its rival Microsoft.  In his article on Mashable.com, “35 Years & $317 Billion Later, Apple Intends To Dominate a Post-PC World,” Ben Parr shares some little-known facts […]

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Tech Blog #8

April 1st, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #8 · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

4 uses for Foursquare for journalists Foursquare is primarily for letting your friends know where you are and figuring out where they are. Its basically a location-based social networking game. Secondarily, it’s for collecting points, prize “badges,” and eventually, coupons, for going about your everyday business. I have been using foursquare for just over 3 weeks […]

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