Online Journalism

Visual Storytelling with Photographs “The ability to publish to a global audience for free, with just a few clicks, opened up te world to a cacophy of new voices.” -Biggs So who is considered a photogropher now?: You Me Anyone with a camera Anyone with a cell phone camera There are two primary kinds of […]

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“American journalism needs a spine transplant,” stressed Dan Rather, famous American journalist, in a CSPAN video conference on February 24, 2011. Students from George Mason University, Pace University, and University of Denver all participated in the conference, provided by C-SPAN’s distance learning program. Joining Rather was Tucker Carlson, a political news correspondent and editor-in chief […]

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“Circulation is down. Ad revenue is down. Staffers are facing week-long furloughs, yet again. There are whispers that USA Today is in trouble. The classifieds business is pretty much gone. Newspapers are dying. The broadcast business isn’t much better. Even the company-backed Newseum is a disaster.” That quote was taken from Mark Potts’ latest blog post and I think that […]

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According to Mark Potts, he has been noticing something about his news consumption over the past few months.  While he rarely has looked at newspapers the past few years, and rarely looks at newspaper Web site home pages and consumes a huge amount of news via RSS feeds and Twitter, one site has emerged as […]

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Journalist and former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, along with political news correspondent Tucker Carlson, appeared in a C-SPAN video conference with George Mason University. Both guests answered questions from students ranging from the current situation in Egypt to their careers in the media. Rather stressed the importance of determination in young journalists and the […]

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NAMI History Multimedia Project 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 […]

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                        “Now that news is a conversation, one of the greatest challenges facing journalists is how to manage, and leverage, that conversation.” How do journalists participate without sacrificing objectivity or credibility? What about legal and ethical issues? What happens if the audience doesn’t participate? […]

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Energy reform is one of the top platforms Senate hopeful George Allen brought up in a recent video conference. Allen, who served Virginia as a Representative, Governor and Senator over almost two decades, joined students participating from the George Mason University Video Studio along with Steve Scully, the political editor for the C-SPAN networks, and […]

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