Kevin Anderson, a digital strategist and freelance journalist, spoke to our class today via Skype. He has worked for BBC, Al Jazeera English and the Guardian. Check out his personal Twitter account , his Muckrack account, and some of his work with Al Jazeera English here. When asked what tools are needed for a journalism skill set […]
Entries from March 24th, 2011
Tech Blog #10: Guest Speaker Kevin Anderson
March 24th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #10: Guest Speaker Kevin Anderson · Comm361, Storify, Student Blog Posts
Tags:Al Jazeera English·BBC·Kevin Anderson·skype·Tech Blog·the Guardian·ZeeMaps
Skype Conference: Kevin Anderson
March 24th, 2011 · Comments Off on Skype Conference: Kevin Anderson · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Anderson’s approach towards journalism: “People can tell their own story and be their own witnesses. For instance, know your sources before something happens.” Anderson was a BBC Washington DC corespondent when he was 26. Important to be sources you are using in context. Don’t paintball a bunch of twitter updates and call it a news […]
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Tech Blog #10: Guest Speaker Kevin Anderson, Al Jazeera English
March 24th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #10: Guest Speaker Kevin Anderson, Al Jazeera English · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Al Jazeera English, the world’s first English-language news channel headquartered in the Middle East, has a young employee, Kevin Anderson. He Skyped with us in class today! 🙂 Headquartered in Doha, Qatar, he chose Al Jazeera English because he “is trying to cover the Middle East from the Middle East.” ZeeMaps is a Web site that Anderson highly […]
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Guest Speaker: Kevin Anderson
March 24th, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest Speaker: Kevin Anderson · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Kevin Anderson, a journalist for Al Jazeera-English, chatted with us via Skype today from Doha, Qatar. Anderson started out as a newspaper journalist and gradually moved onto online journalism. He was BBC’s first online journalist outside of the U.K. and was also the Washington correspondent for the BBC website. In 2010, Anderson took what he […]
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Steve Buttry and how I’m becoming friends with Twitter
March 24th, 2011 · Comments Off on Steve Buttry and how I’m becoming friends with Twitter · Comm361, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts
I have to admit Steve Buttry has inspired me. It was something he said: Feeling uncomfortable should be a red flag that you have to jump in I admit Twitter makes me uncomfortable. Twitter makes me afraid. And after hearing Steve say those words I realized I had to jump in. So I have. I […]
Tags:GMU·New Media·Tech Blog Posts
Briggs Ch. 8 and 9
March 24th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 8 and 9 · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
With the advent of YouTube and other sites that allow users to easily share video, the format has become an essential part of journalism. There are several avenues to utilizing video, from comprehensive edited stories to raw footage of a story highlight. Briggs provides several tips on how to make the most of your videos: […]
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Digitize me, please
March 23rd, 2011 · Comments Off on Digitize me, please · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
“Its time for everyone to accept that the amount of information in our lives is going to keep growing” – Mark Briggs As the world is transitioning into socialization on the Web, it is also transitioning into a world of digital data. The amount of information we have at our fingertips through the Internet is […]
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Practice makes perfect: a beginner’s guide to videography
March 23rd, 2011 · Comments Off on Practice makes perfect: a beginner’s guide to videography · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
“The only way to learn video journalism is by doing it. It will take time and practice to master the fundamentals. But don’t let that stop you from trying to learn, because you must just DO IT, over and over, to get good at it. The best thing you can do is attempt to make […]
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Steve Buttry-Guest Speaker
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Steve Buttry-Guest Speaker · Comm361, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts
Steve Buttry has spent nearly 40 years in the newspaper business and, having successfully crossed over to digital journalism, is now the the Director for Community Engagement at TBD, a site that focuses on DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia news. Throughout his lecture today, he engaged the class with several sites that took a news story […]
Tags:35W bridge collapse·Japan nuclear crisis·Star Tribune·TBD·Tech Blog Items
Briggs 9: Dealing with data
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs 9: Dealing with data · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
MORE AND MORE information becomes available online all the time, so more organization of the information is needed as well. The formula to find out what you need to do to organize is this: “what you need to manage + the right tools to manage it = personal productivity.” The best place to start getting […]
