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Briggs Ch. 9 – ‘Data-driven journalism and digitizing your life’

March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 9 – ‘Data-driven journalism and digitizing your life’ · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Organizing your digital life was the focus of this chapter. There are many free or trial programs that can help you organize your digital self. Since these programs are online, they are easily edited and can be accessible to others. Some examples: Backpack Zoho MS Office Suite (Outlook, etc) Dropbox Basecamp Databases are helpful in […]

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Briggs Ch. 8 – ‘Telling stories with video’

March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 8 – ‘Telling stories with video’ · Comm361, Student Blog Posts, video

Video storytelling was the concept of this chapter. Now anyone can use the digital equipment around them to create video storytelling, it just takes a lot of practice. Thanks to YouTube, the quality of the video doesn’t have to be very high. What’s important is authenticity. The most entertaining videos get re-posted over and over. […]

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Briggs Ch. 10 – ‘Managing news as a Conversation’

March 1st, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 10 – ‘Managing news as a Conversation’ · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Interactive discussion and online news was the focus of this chapter. Responding to comments can help journalists seem transparent but many journalists are reluctant to do so because some comments are personal attacks. One journalist — Doug Feaver, former editor at washingtonpost.com, has created a blog, dot.comments, on the Washington Post’s website that responds to […]

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