Steve Buttry was a fantastic guest speaker, and appropriately enough his blog is just as chock full of great information, including a particularly helpful article on making the most out of your internship. I’ve never partook in a journalism internship, but I’m currently interning at Loudoun County Public Schools Television, and I’ve kept Buttry’s tips […]
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Tech Blog – Making the Most of Your Journalism Internship
April 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog – Making the Most of Your Journalism Internship · Comm361, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts
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Tech Blog – Mark Potts
March 30th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog – Mark Potts · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
In today’s class, we got to hear from Mark Potts, and I have to say, with all due respect to the others who have spoken to us, I think he was the best guest brought in to COMM361 this semester. Within an hour or so, Potts shared approximately three to four dozen different and helpful […]
Briggs 9: Dealing with data
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs 9: Dealing with data · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
MORE AND MORE information becomes available online all the time, so more organization of the information is needed as well. The formula to find out what you need to do to organize is this: “what you need to manage + the right tools to manage it = personal productivity.” The best place to start getting […]
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 […]
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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Briggs Ch. 11
March 9th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 11 · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Although most of the Briggs book focuses on aspects of digital journalism that display its strengths versus print, this chapter acknowledges something both good and bad for aspiring journalists: while print was at one time the only real legitimate news source, there are countless news sites online and it’s much harder to compete for an […]
Briggs Ch. 10
March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 10 · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Early in this chapter, Briggs writes: [M]any journalists (maybe most journalists) preferred news as a lecture. Only begrudgingly have they come around to the idea that a future in journalism means managing online communities and participating in various social networks. It’s a pretty damning accusation but one that I’m unfortunately all too familiar with. When […]
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Briggs Ch. 7
March 1st, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 7 · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Everybody knows that links and video are advantages to online journalism that don’t exist in print, but people often neglect to acknowledge the value of audio as well. Audio offers many options for things that wouldn’t be practical or possible in video. Words and quotes may be powerful on paper, but imagine how much stronger […]
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Briggs Ch. 6
February 24th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 6 · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
The adage that a picture’s worth a thousand words has, alas, proven untrue whenever I try to submit a 1250-word paper to a professor with just a photograph and three paragraphs. But when it comes to online writing, not including pictures is a capital offense (and I’ll plead guilty to occasionally committing the crime). A […]
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Briggs Ch. 5
February 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 5 · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
It may be getting repetitive at this point to say once again how crucial it is to implement technology into modern journalism, but it remains the vital takeaway point of the Briggs text. One aspect of this is mobile journalism. If cell phones allow people to receive calls and access their email anywhere at any […]
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