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Tech Blog #11: Guest Speaker Mark Potts

March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #11: Guest Speaker Mark Potts · Comm361, New York Times, Storify, Student Blog Posts

Mark Potts, journalist and digital pioneer, spoke to our class today. He helped create the Washington Post website, served as editor for various news websites and has worked in the media field for nearly 20 years. Check out his blog Recovering Journalist. Potts showed us a variety of different websites that all present unique ways of telling stories: […]

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Steve Buttry-Guest Speaker

March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Steve Buttry-Guest Speaker · Comm361, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts

Steve Buttry has spent nearly 40 years in the newspaper business and, having successfully crossed over to digital journalism, is now the the Director for Community Engagement at TBD,  a site that focuses on DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia news. Throughout his lecture today, he engaged the class with several sites that took a news story […]

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Guest Speaker: Steve Buttry

March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest Speaker: Steve Buttry · Comm361, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts

Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement at TBD, came to speak to our Comm. 361 class today about utilizing social media and digital online tools across various platforms.  Copyright: tbd.com Buttry started off his presentation by giving out free goodies from TBD. Hats and iPhone 4 covers with the TBD logo on them. Smart and easy advertising! He […]

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Guest speaker: Steve Buttry

March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest speaker: Steve Buttry · Comm361, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts

Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement at TBD, spoke to our Comm 371 class about the abilities and effects of video storytelling and how important of a tool it is to help show and explain events. As a writer, you have control of the story. The user can browse to the page they want to […]

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Guest Speaker: Steve Buttry from TBD

March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest Speaker: Steve Buttry from TBD · Comm361, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts

“Don’t let obstacles become excuses“ Always be a curious journalist. Even if you do not speak the language, find a way. If your lead does not fit in a Twitter status, it’s too long.

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Tech Blog #9: Guest Speaker Steve Buttry

March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #9: Guest Speaker Steve Buttry · Comm361, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts

Steve Buttry Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement for TBD, joined our class today for a presentation on cross-platform journalism and the different tools and techniques that are applied to many articles and stories today. Check out his Bio, personal Twitter account, and blog, The Buttry Diary, here. Professor Klein noted that Buttry understands the social […]

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Chapter 10: managing news as a conversation

March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 10: managing news as a conversation · briggs, Comm361, social media, Student Blog Posts

News is becoming social. The internet is interactive, and allows the news to become a conversation, other just being information. With news gaining this character, there are some concerns about ethics, credibility, and being objective. As journalism, we have no control of what the reader, and now writer, is going to say about your piece on […]

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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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