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Entries from April 3rd, 2011

Tech blog item #10: B.J. Koubaroulis

April 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech blog item #10: B.J. Koubaroulis · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

In class this past Thursday, guest speaker BJ Koubaroulis had plenty of great things to say.  There were a lot of valid points he made, as it is tough to know when to start.  Koubaroulis is a correspondent with The Washington Post and the Play-by-Play Voice of High School and College Sports for Verizon FiOS1 Sports. He […]

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Tech blog item #9: The New York Times’ Porous Paywall

April 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech blog item #9: The New York Times’ Porous Paywall · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

According to Mark Potts’ “Recovering Journalist,” there’s a rule today that every media-business blogger has to weigh in on the New York Times’ finally announced online subscription plan.  In this blog article, Potts goes over this plan, and looks at an analysis done by Felix Salmon. The New York Times introduced this plan on Thursday.  The […]

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George Mason University and the Use of Social Media in the Case of Abdirashid Dahir

April 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off on George Mason University and the Use of Social Media in the Case of Abdirashid Dahir · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Abdirashid Dahir on Dipity. A recent post by Mindy McAdams about the use of timelines in journalism had me wanting to try out the idea. I thought the recent case of George Mason student Abdirashid Dahir would lend itself to a timeline. How quickly events happened after the Sarah Evans Facebook post would help to […]

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