Watch this. How many different types of audio can you recognize? 10? 12? This is how Steve Buttry, the director of community engagement for TBD, started his lecture. Buttry talks about information gathering and storytelling challenges that organizations have to cover. Sharing control of the story with the user has changed. In traditional journalism: you […]
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Steve Buttry’s visit
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Steve Buttry’s visit · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
STEVE BUTTRY gave us some free swag, not too shabby. He also told us to count the amount of media uses for the bridge collapse in Minneapolis. It was very intersting to see how you can creativly create an intro … Continue reading →
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Steve Buttry
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Steve Buttry · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Visual storytelling was the focus of Steve Buttry‘s talk. He shared with us his blog, The Buttry Diary. He said he’d use some examples from his blog post from the previous time he talked to Klein’s class. He said he’d also use some new examples. He started with examples using maps as a gateway for […]
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Guest Speaker: Steve Buttry
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest Speaker: Steve Buttry · Comm361, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts
Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement at TBD, came to speak to our Comm. 361 class today about utilizing social media and digital online tools across various platforms. Copyright: tbd.com Buttry started off his presentation by giving out free goodies from TBD. Hats and iPhone 4 covers with the TBD logo on them. Smart and easy advertising! He […]
Guest speaker: Steve Buttry
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest speaker: Steve Buttry · Comm361, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts
Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement at TBD, spoke to our Comm 371 class about the abilities and effects of video storytelling and how important of a tool it is to help show and explain events. As a writer, you have control of the story. The user can browse to the page they want to […]
Steve Buttry’s visit
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Steve Buttry’s visit · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Steve Buttry Reporting has changed with innovation. -Can’t just interview people. You need to gather sounds and video. Many websites work on innovative ways to present stories. Example Example 2 -“You can sometimes tell a story with words in audio than written words” Innovations give control to the users “Thinking of all the […]
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Guest Speaker: Steve Buttry from TBD
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest Speaker: Steve Buttry from TBD · Comm361, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts
“Don’t let obstacles become excuses“ Always be a curious journalist. Even if you do not speak the language, find a way. If your lead does not fit in a Twitter status, it’s too long.
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Tech Blog #9: Guest Speaker Steve Buttry
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #9: Guest Speaker Steve Buttry · Comm361, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts
Steve Buttry Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement for TBD, joined our class today for a presentation on cross-platform journalism and the different tools and techniques that are applied to many articles and stories today. Check out his Bio, personal Twitter account, and blog, The Buttry Diary, here. Professor Klein noted that Buttry understands the social […]
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Tech Blog #9: Guest Speaker Steve Buttry, TBD.com’s Director of Community Engagement
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #9: Guest Speaker Steve Buttry, TBD.com’s Director of Community Engagement · Comm361, New York Times, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts
Director of Community Engagement Steve Buttry for TBD.com was in class with us today! Buttry started by showing us a social media project that the Star Tribune worked on in mid- to late-2007. It involved a slide show of pictures and sounds that depicted the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Minn. The bridge used to […]
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Guest Speaker: Steve Buttry
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest Speaker: Steve Buttry · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement at TBD visited our class on Tuesday, March 22. He showed us a lot of great interactive sites that can be used by electronic journalists. Check out some of the links below – the stories are interesting, but the way each story is told is even more amazing! 13 Seconds […]
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