There is no denying that the Internet has changed the world. So, how do we keep up with it? For most of us, using the Internet doesn’t cost much. So, why pay 50 cents for a newspaper when you have access to all the information in the world for free? One way journalists are trying […]
Entries Tagged as 'Briggs Chapter Summaries'
Chapter 11: Building a digital audience for news
March 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 11: Building a digital audience for news · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Chapter ten: Managing news as a conversation
March 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter ten: Managing news as a conversation · Comm361, online journalism, social media, Student Blog Posts
One of the greatest challenges journalists face today is learning how to manage a news conversation. According to Mark Briggs, this begs three questions: How do journalists participate in the conversation without sacrificing their objectivity or credibility? What about legal and ethical issues now that everyone can publish anything they want on a professional news […]
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Chapter nine: Data-drive journalism and digitizing your life
March 25th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter nine: Data-drive journalism and digitizing your life · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
There are some things everyone should know about when it comes to data productivity and organization. What you need to manage + the right tools to manage = personal productivity We often feel the need to organize our digital data. Things like e-mail, contacts, to-do lists, calendars and word documents. Tools such as Google, Office […]
Chapter eight: Telling stories with video
March 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter eight: Telling stories with video · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
These days, as long as you have a phone with a camera, you are armed with one of the most powerful tools on the planet: a video camera. What words and pictures can’t capture, video does. From World Cup soccer matches to political revolutions to weddings, video captures it all with the click of a […]
Chapter seven: Making audio journalism visible
February 23rd, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter seven: Making audio journalism visible · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Painting sound pictures for listeners is a skill that takes much practice, according to Mark Briggs. Thank god, we have audio journalism to help us with that. The good thing about audio journalism is that it can be done with a handful of tools — a microphone, recorder and free software. Long gone are the […]
Chapter four: Microblogging
February 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter four: Microblogging · briggs, Comm361, social media, Student Blog Posts
Twitter. It’s the one thing that comes to mind when you hear the word microblogging. In what way can we possibly cover news in less than 140 characters? What is microblogging? It’s the idea that lets individuals write and share small content of news online via short sentences, images or video links. It is an […]
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Chapter three: Crowd-powered collaboration
February 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter three: Crowd-powered collaboration · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
In chapter three, Mark Briggs focuses on the new types of reporting methods that are becoming more prevalent in this day and age. Crowdsourcing Coined by Wired News’ Jeff Howe in 2006, this term basically means distributed reporting. It is using a lot of news sources at a given time to help research a specific […]
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Chapter two: The basics of blogging
February 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter two: The basics of blogging · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
In Mark Briggs’ second chapter “Advanced Blogging,” he focuses on the essentials of blogging. His main points of the chapters are summarized as the following: Good blogs are a continuing conversation: If you write a blog, it is necessary to create a reader’s base to get some feedback. This enables you to continue the conversation […]
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Chapter one: We are all web workers now!
February 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter one: We are all web workers now! · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
I have taken three classes with Professor Steve Klein, one for every semester I have been at Mason and the one thing that has stuck with me all this time is that he has always emphasized the FOUNDATIONS of writing for journalism. Whether it may be writing a story, doing carpentry work or climbing a […]
