Online Journalism

The period of September through December was a dry one for Mark Potts.  There were no blog posts on his “Recovering Journalist” blog because he was just plain tired of “repeating himself over and over again.”  He must have a point because sometimes, you just run out of things to talk about. However, his main […]

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According to Briggs, now that news is a conversation, one of the greatest challenges facing journalists is how to manage, and leverage, that conversation.  To prove Briggs’ point, it is best to bring up a quote from one of the most famous journalists of all time, Edward R. Murrow. “The speed of communication is wonderful […]

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On February the 17th myself and 14 other lucky class members had the pleasure in participating in a video “Distant Learning” conference with George Allen, a US politician, who is running for Senate again. At first I was a bit … Continue reading →

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First we were forced to switch from the type-writer to the computer. Then came the transition from the print media to Internet media. Now we are being thrust in to a world of photojournalism, blog journalism, Twitter journalism, and most importantly: audio journalism. You might be asking yourself what is so great about audio journalism. […]

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Top 10 twitter this week Charlie Sheen has taken over Twitter and now has 800,00 followers! And that was just in 24 hours! All because 2 and half men stopped. Justin Bieber is so famous, I do not see what the big deal is about this kid. But he is ranked #2 for Twitter’s top […]

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Managing News as a Conversation Blogs have become a journalism conversation blogspot twitter facebook myspace You can converse through comments. not so simple, sometimes mean and ugly Benefits: provide transparency enable an immediate feedback spread awareness of news coverage through word-of-mouth marketing New conversation is important: feedback keeping the reader involved keeping the public in-tune […]

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Telling Stories with Video Impact of digital video: youtube the only way to learn is to do make your mistakes as quickly as possible can tell a better story than writing perfection is not necessary great sometimes takes too long for what the story deserves quick and unpolished video content on news sites often draws […]

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Making Audio Journalism Visible “Somehow audio has been considered the ‘invisble’ medium,” Karin Hogh “However, if done right, audio can be as powerful in journalism as written articles or even TV and videos.” Audio Journalism Presence: On location, a reporter can literally bring readers to the story. Being there boots credibility and interest. Emotions: has […]

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