On Tuesday, April 5, 2011, Brad Kalbfeld stopped by George Mason University to talk to Online Journalism students. Kalbfeld is a digital pioneer. You can check out his website, Interactivity, LLC. For more than 36 years, he has been a : writer reporter editor news executive including 22 as Managing Editor/Broadcast for The Associated Press. Kalbfeld […]
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Lecture by Brad Kalbfeld, former AP Managing Editor/ Broadcast
April 5th, 2011 · Comments Off on Lecture by Brad Kalbfeld, former AP Managing Editor/ Broadcast · Comm361, online journalism, Student Blog Posts
Tech Blog #3: What’s in Store for Apple in the Next 35 Years?
April 2nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #3: What’s in Store for Apple in the Next 35 Years? · Comm361, online journalism, Student Blog Posts
In 1976 Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded a small company named Apple Computer. For its first 35 years, Apple was the underdog to its rival Microsoft. In his article on Mashable.com, “35 Years & $317 Billion Later, Apple Intends To Dominate a Post-PC World,” Ben Parr shares some little-known facts […]
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My first computer: So easy to use, King Kong Bundy could use it!
March 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Comm361, King Kong Bundy, online journalism
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Mark Potts visit
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Mark Potts visit · Comm361, Facebook, online journalism, Student Blog Posts
Mark Potts started out by stating that Wikipedia is a sort of new site. It’s useful because it’s built by the crowd and articles can be built instantly. The Washington Post implemented Facebook to tell a story about a mother who gave birth and then got sick a couple months ago. Potts said this story […]
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Tech Blog #2: New Dictionary Words
March 28th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #2: New Dictionary Words · Comm361, online journalism, Student Blog Posts
There’s a fun new article on Mashable.com titled “OMG, the Oxford English Dictionary Added New Words! We ‘Heart” It! LOL!” So, OMG, maybe the dictionary’s editor is just a Valley Girl at ‘heart,’ you know? OMG and LOL, along with FYI, are all, according to the OED, “initialisms associated with the language of electronic […]
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Chapter ten: Managing news as a conversation
March 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter ten: Managing news as a conversation · Comm361, online journalism, social media, Student Blog Posts
One of the greatest challenges journalists face today is learning how to manage a news conversation. According to Mark Briggs, this begs three questions: How do journalists participate in the conversation without sacrificing their objectivity or credibility? What about legal and ethical issues now that everyone can publish anything they want on a professional news […]
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Tech Blog #1: Copyright Law
March 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #1: Copyright Law · Comm361, online journalism, Student Blog Posts
Kaiser Wahab’s Mar. 24 article “How the Web Has Changed Our Perception of Copyright Law” on Mashable.com discusses the slow pace of legislation and how private and government interests are aggressively “pushing the envelope” to combat the continuing problem of copyright infringement on the Internet. “Hurt Locker” lawsuits: example of file sharing suits where […]
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C-SPAN Video Conference with Dan Rather and Tucker Carlson
March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on C-SPAN Video Conference with Dan Rather and Tucker Carlson · Comm361, online journalism, Student Blog Posts
Dan Rather, former anchor of the “CBS Evening News” and special correspondent for HD Net, where he is the managing editor of “Dan Rather Reports,” sounded the death knell for the traditional evening news broadcast. “The evening news is what the Mafia would call a walking corpse,” said Rather. “It’s pretty much dead, but it […]
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Dan Rather and Tucker Carlson C-Span
March 1st, 2011 · Comments Off on Dan Rather and Tucker Carlson C-Span · Comm361, online journalism, Student Blog Posts
Dan Rather and Tucker Carlson spoke with George Mason students through video conference on Feb. 24, 2011 to speak about the state of journalism and where it’s headed. Rather, who was the news anchor for the CBS Evening News from 1981 to 2005 and is now the anchor of Dan Rather Reports on HDNet and […]
