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Entries from March 29th, 2011
Lecture by Mark Potts from Recoveringjournalist.com
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Lecture by Mark Potts from Recoveringjournalist.com · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
He’s here! Mark Potts is right here in front of me. About ten feet away, honestly. Here is his site. He follows almost thirty fabulous blogs as well, see it under his Essential Readings tab. Potts said, “I think a lot of journalists—and traditional media executives—are caught up in old ways of thinking about the industry […]
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Mark Potts 3/29/11
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Mark Potts 3/29/11 · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Mark Potts Interesting creative ways to submit news: Wikipedia is an amazing news site. Is away to get a really quick overview an event or something. Using facebook to tell a story… the Washington Post used facebook as a story telling device for a pregnant sick mommy. The people news- straight from the horses mouth. […]
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Guest Speaker- Mark Potts
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest Speaker- Mark Potts · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
“Wikipedia is a great news source” TBD is a lot better than Patch.com “Do what you do best and link to the rest” I don’t do this for money, I do it for respect in my community. Classic stories you see in hyper-local journalism, “What is the vacant BlockBuster store going to turn into?” “RSS, […]
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Tech Blog #11: Guest Speaker Mark Potts, Owner of RecoveringJournalist.com
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #11: Guest Speaker Mark Potts, Owner of RecoveringJournalist.com · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
“We haven’t fully taken advantage of the medium,” said Mark Potts, commenting on the vast world of the Internet. Mark Potts, creator of RecoveringJournalist, his blog, came in to speak to our class today! He offered some useful opinions on great ways to tell stories. Potts began with Patch.com. “It’s important because it’s close to […]
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Skype session with Kevin Anderson
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Skype session with Kevin Anderson · Comm361, Storify, Student Blog Posts
Courtesy of his Twitter; Kevin Anderson: Digital strategist and freelance journalist with more than a decade experience with the Guardian and the BBC. Helping create the future of journalism. FOLLOW HIM ON TWITTER! On Thursday, March 24, 2011, Anderson skyped in to chat! Being half way accross the world didn’t stop him from making his […]
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Briggs Chapter 10
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Chapter 10 · Comm361, Facebook, Student Blog Posts
Managing News as a Conversation “The speed of communications is wonderful to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.” -Edward R. Murrow It began as comments on news stories and blog posts, this has mushroomed into full social networking tools on news sites. […]
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Briggs Chapter 7
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Chapter 7 · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Making Audio Journalism Visible Audio Journalism? It works when using a few tools like a microphone or recorder to make full-featured segments that sound like radio epidodes. You can distribute them as podcosts to gain an audience! Importance: Presence Emotions Atmosphere How to use this audio? Reporter overview Podcasts Audio slide show Breaking news National Public Radio has […]
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Tech Blog #2: New Dictionary Words
March 28th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #2: New Dictionary Words · Comm361, online journalism, Student Blog Posts
There’s a fun new article on Mashable.com titled “OMG, the Oxford English Dictionary Added New Words! We ‘Heart” It! LOL!” So, OMG, maybe the dictionary’s editor is just a Valley Girl at ‘heart,’ you know? OMG and LOL, along with FYI, are all, according to the OED, “initialisms associated with the language of electronic […]
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