Telling Stories with Video The digital video revolution: One person can now make and produce high-quality Web video with a $200 camera and laptop or desk computer instead of paying $35,000 for a camera and an expenisve editing station. Briggs went into highlights and explinations of: Capturing quick video highlights, not documentary projects. Managing digital […]
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Briggs Chapter 8
April 12th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Chapter 8 · 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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Ch.3 ‘Crowd-powered collaboration’
February 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on Ch.3 ‘Crowd-powered collaboration’ · Comm361, online journalism, Student Blog Posts
“The hunter-gatherer model of journalism is no long sufficient. Citizens can do their own hunting and gathering on the Internet. What they need is somebody to add value to that information by processing it–digesting it, organizing it, making it usable.” — Phil Meyer, author of “Precision Journalism” Briggs starts out the third chapter of “Journalism […]
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Briggs Chapter 3
February 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Chapter 3 · Comm361, newspapers, Student Blog Posts
Have you ever heard the phrase, two heads are better than one? Briggs moved on in “Journalism Next” to crowdsourcing. What is crowdsourcing? “It is a relatively new term, coined by Jeff Howe in a 2006 article for Wired News. Think of crowdsourcing like outsourcing, the term it spun off from. Crowdsourcing harnesses the sustained […]
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