http://www.pathinteractive.com/blog/2009/12/seo-image-optimization/ You’ve created your blog. You tweet about it, you put on Facebook. You want people to read it. Not enough? You’re not having the traffic you wish you had? Mark Briggs is here to help you. And I am too. First, you need the measure your blog’s traffic. Who is reading your blog? What […]
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Chapter 11: building a digital audience for news
March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 11: building a digital audience for news · briggs, Comm361, social media, Student Blog Posts
Chapter 10: managing news as a conversation
March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 10: managing news as a conversation · briggs, Comm361, social media, Student Blog Posts
News is becoming social. The internet is interactive, and allows the news to become a conversation, other just being information. With news gaining this character, there are some concerns about ethics, credibility, and being objective. As journalism, we have no control of what the reader, and now writer, is going to say about your piece on […]
Briggs Ch. 10
March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 10 · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Early in this chapter, Briggs writes: [M]any journalists (maybe most journalists) preferred news as a lecture. Only begrudgingly have they come around to the idea that a future in journalism means managing online communities and participating in various social networks. It’s a pretty damning accusation but one that I’m unfortunately all too familiar with. When […]
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Chapter 10 — Managing News as a Conversation
March 2nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 10 — Managing News as a Conversation · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
“The socialization of news is clearly the right direction for journalism,” begins Briggs in his tenth chapter of JournalismNext. This chapter explores the idea of news being a conversation, rather than “a lecture,” and how conversing through social networking can add to one’s story. “Three areas of evolution suggest a brighter future for comments on news […]
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Briggs Ch. 7
March 1st, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 7 · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Everybody knows that links and video are advantages to online journalism that don’t exist in print, but people often neglect to acknowledge the value of audio as well. Audio offers many options for things that wouldn’t be practical or possible in video. Words and quotes may be powerful on paper, but imagine how much stronger […]
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Briggs Ch. 10 – ‘Managing news as a Conversation’
March 1st, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 10 – ‘Managing news as a Conversation’ · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Interactive discussion and online news was the focus of this chapter. Responding to comments can help journalists seem transparent but many journalists are reluctant to do so because some comments are personal attacks. One journalist — Doug Feaver, former editor at washingtonpost.com, has created a blog, dot.comments, on the Washington Post’s website that responds to […]
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Chapter 7: Making Audio Journalism Visible
February 28th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 7: Making Audio Journalism Visible · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
“Reporters and journalism students must stop thinking about sound as an exclusively radio format and adopt it as a reporting tool that can be learned and used to effectively deliver information to readers or listeners.” -Jim Stovall Audio journalism, very simply and obviously put, is getting journalism out through the means of audio. Audio allows the listener to […]
Briggs 6
February 24th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs 6 · briggs, Comm361, online journalism, Student Blog Posts
Visual Storytelling with Photographs Even if you don’t have aspirations of becoming an artist with a camera, as a journalist you should understand how digital photography works. Journalism without photographs is like writing without verbs. More time leads to better photos. If you want to improve your photography skills, the first step is to find […]
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Briggs Ch. 6
February 24th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 6 · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
The adage that a picture’s worth a thousand words has, alas, proven untrue whenever I try to submit a 1250-word paper to a professor with just a photograph and three paragraphs. But when it comes to online writing, not including pictures is a capital offense (and I’ll plead guilty to occasionally committing the crime). A […]
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Chapter seven: Making audio journalism visible
February 23rd, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter seven: Making audio journalism visible · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Painting sound pictures for listeners is a skill that takes much practice, according to Mark Briggs. Thank god, we have audio journalism to help us with that. The good thing about audio journalism is that it can be done with a handful of tools — a microphone, recorder and free software. Long gone are the […]
