Online Journalism

Our project’s goal is to recover NAMI Northern Virginia history and present it interactively. We will conduct interviews with past board members, do research about the institution, and gather information about its history. We will be using different online platforms to organize and present the information. Our project will be constructed around an interactive timeline. […]

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I have one word to summarize this article: Perfect. It’s short. It’s catchy. It keeps you reading more. Wait. Does that make me a lazy bastard, too? Probably. But it’s true and everyone else is one. We love short sentences, like the ones I used to start this entry, with bold-face words that attract our […]

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Summary: In September of 2010, Google added a new instant search feature that shows results as soon as you type. Google declared that it will change the face of searching on the internet. If search results were not quick enough, Google’s new instant search results software displays links the second you type something in the […]

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Bloggers and journalists more and more are progressing to siliar ideaologies

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National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Northern Virginia is a non-profit organization that seeks to provide educations and resources about mental illness. Founded in 1979, NAMI has helped individuals and families who are affected by mental illness, raised awareness of mental illness in the U.S. and advocated the government for the rights of people […]

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technology and news- This slide demonstrates the benefits of technology in news.

Newsgathering is much easier now.
Consumers can be used as assets much easier. Meaning it is made easier to find out what the consumers want in their news.

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This post from my tech blog called, Online Journalism, talks about the five prediction for journalism in the next 25 years. We constantly talk about newspapers fading away in our class discussions, but we have a tendency to cast the future as an exaggerated present. Prediction 1: People will still be predicting the death of […]

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Jon Denunzio held a lecture where he spoke of the benefits of social media and effective ways to use soical media. Social media is a valuable source for consumer feedback. It allows websites to build rapport with consumers and open dialouge. It’s always good to search for new ideas, social media allows for makes it […]

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Onlinejournalismblog.com made predicitions about the nature of journalism in the next 25 years. -Oddly enough the blog predicts people will “still be prediciting the death of newspapers.                Because print media is becoming less and less profitable a popular belief is it will eventually disapear. The blog writer ” Influence and status are hard to […]

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