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My Media Pyramid

February 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on My Media Pyramid · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

What is a media pyramid? Basically, it’s an illustration of where you get your news from. For me, it’s basically comprised of: Family Friends Significant Other Facebook/Twitter Comedy Central Time Magazine Fox News To each his or her own, I say. But whether you get your news from Twitter or The Washington Post, always make […]

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Hello world!

February 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Hello world! · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Welcome to onMason. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

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Briggs Ch. 3

February 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 3 · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts

As anyone can have their own blog, it’s only fitting that news itself has become a much more collaborative process given all the new technology that bridges the gap between citizens and the media elite. Even sites as prominent as CNN now rely heavily on readers submitting news stories and videos. This global sharing process, […]

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Lecture by Claudia Holland on copyright and fair use

February 5th, 2011 · Comments Off on Lecture by Claudia Holland on copyright and fair use · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

George Mason University’s copyright officer, Claudia Holland visited with Klein’s Online Journalism class to talk about copyright and fair use on Thursday, February 3, 2011. The lecture was Power Point based and started out with explaining that copyrighted traits are expressions and originality; protected works are literary, architectural, sounds recordings, motion pictures, and other picture, […]

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Media Consumption

February 5th, 2011 · Comments Off on Media Consumption · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

One of our first homework assignments for Online Journalism was to read Eric Deggans’ article, What is Your Media Pyramid? Essentially your media pyramid should end up looking like the food group pyramid. The bottom level of mine started out with the huge giants of media like powerhouses aol.com, msn.com, huffingtonpost.com and washingtonpost.com as my […]

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Briggs Summaries

February 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Summaries · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Introduction Although print journalism is hardly the dominant force it once was, journalism is arguably thriving more strongly than ever. The Internet and cable networks have provided a goldmine of opportunity for budding journalists, but with it are new and ever-changing demands from audiences. A news site cannot simply get by on posting traditional news; […]

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Media Pyramid

February 1st, 2011 · Comments Off on Media Pyramid · Comm361, online journalism, Student Blog Posts

Assignment No. 1

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Hello world!

January 31st, 2011 · Comments Off on Hello world! · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Welcome to MY BLOG .

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Media Pyramid

January 31st, 2011 · Comments Off on Media Pyramid · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

As an aspiring pop culture journalist, I feel it’s especially important to keep abreast of what’s going on in the entertainment world. That’s why magazines like Entertainment Weekly (and its companion website), Variety and Billboard are all daily reads/visits for me. In particular, I keep track of the two subjects I write about the most–rock […]

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>The social media revolution

January 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Comm361, online journalism, social media

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