How do journalists compete in a large media market? “Your title tag and description are your first impression to attract potential audience” said Monica Wright. “You capture new online readership by setting yourself apart with useful and engaging tags.” Building an audience online also includes: tracking your content web analytics search engine optimization (SEO) effective […]
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Chapter 11: Building a Digital Audience
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Dan Rather Shares Journalism Insights With Students
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“American journalism, in many ways, needs a spine transplant.”
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Chapter 10: Managing News as a Conversation
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“The future of journalism means managing online communities and participating in various social networks,” said Mark Briggs. One of the greatest challenges facing journalists now is how to manage and leverage news conversation in social media networks. The problem with news as a conversation is that participants are rarely as constructive or respectful as journalists and […]
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Top 10 Ways to Rock Your Resumé
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LifeHacker posted “Top 10 Ways to Rock Your Resume”, written by Whitson Gordon, on Mar. 5, 2011 and it already has over 115,000 views three days later! Start with a Big List, and Then Shorten It- Keeping your resumé brief is important, but one of the best ways to make sure your resumé is as […]
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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, Facebook, Student Blog Posts
“Now that news is a conversation, one of the greatest challenges facing journalists is how to manage, and leverage, that conversation.” – Mark Briggs According to Briggs, journalism now means 1) managing online communities as well as 2) participating in various social networks. Audiences being able to comment on stories online and voice their opinions is […]
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Lecture by Jon DeNunzio from The Washington Post
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Jon DeNunzio, User Engagement Editor, The Washington Post. (former Online Sports Editor) Follow Jon’s tweets! DeNunzio came to George Mason University on Mar. 3, 2011; he talking about integrating Social Media Into your journalism. Background: Graduated UVA in 1991 Was not a journalism major Concentrated in high school sports at Washington post 2000-2007 Got into […]
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Chapter 11: building a digital audience for news
March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 11: building a digital audience for news · briggs, Comm361, social media, Student Blog Posts
http://www.pathinteractive.com/blog/2009/12/seo-image-optimization/ You’ve created your blog. You tweet about it, you put on Facebook. You want people to read it. Not enough? You’re not having the traffic you wish you had? Mark Briggs is here to help you. And I am too. First, you need the measure your blog’s traffic. Who is reading your blog? What […]
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 […]
C-SPAN Video Conference with Dan Rather and Tucker Carlson
March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on C-SPAN Video Conference with Dan Rather and Tucker Carlson · Comm361, online journalism, Student Blog Posts
Dan Rather, former anchor of the “CBS Evening News” and special correspondent for HD Net, where he is the managing editor of “Dan Rather Reports,” sounded the death knell for the traditional evening news broadcast. “The evening news is what the Mafia would call a walking corpse,” said Rather. “It’s pretty much dead, but it […]
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Welcome to AllenTown
March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Welcome to AllenTown · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
For Senator-elect George Allen, freedom is the name of the game Former Virginia Senator George Allen is on the campaign trail again, only this time he’s hitting the digital realm as well. On Thursday, February 17, 2011, Allen joined students from George Mason University and the University of Denver in a video conference to be […]
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