Mark Potts, who spent 15 years in the print business as a reporter and editor, is an entrepreneur who is a strategic/business/product consultant to leading business and Internet companies. In class today, he explained how many journalists get locked into telling a story a certain way, and don’t venture further and expand their storytelling ways. […]
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Mark Potts-Guest Speaker
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Mark Potts-Guest Speaker · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
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Mark Potts talks online journalism, Twitter and the future of how we consume the news
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Mark Potts talks online journalism, Twitter and the future of how we consume the news · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Summary: Journalist and founder of the blog “Recovering Journalist” Mark Potts discusses why bloggers are the most passionate journalists, the uselessness of Twitter, and how the digital revolution has and will continue to change the way we consume the news. Online journalists need to “use the medium to tell the story,” Mark Potts told a […]
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Guest speaker: Mark Potts
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest speaker: Mark Potts · Comm361, Facebook, Student Blog Posts
Mark Potts, creator of Washingtonpost.com, showed us how journalism works without using the typical inverted pyramid, who/what/when/where/why style. He showed us how good Wikipedia can be, despite its reputation. He also showed us how Facebook was used as a storytelling device as well as Storify. How to get the audience involved: Crowdsourcing (at both local […]
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Guest speaker: Mark Potts
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest speaker: Mark Potts · Comm361, Storify, Student Blog Posts
Mark Potts works in the digital world for the past 20 years, and tries to take full advantage of all internet resources. He started showing us some good examples and resources: Wikipedia: you can find anything, and it’s built by the crowd. It’s looked down upon, but it’s a great way to find an overview […]
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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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Mark Potts
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Mark Potts · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Use exisitng information to help get your story together. “make a great map of pot holes” use readers to help fuel your ideas for stories. baristanet.com and other hypernet worlds are capable of making money, and are run by the community. … Continue reading →
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Lecture by Mark Potts from Recoveringjournalist.com
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Lecture by Mark Potts from Recoveringjournalist.com · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
He’s here! Mark Potts is right here in front of me. About ten feet away, honestly. Here is his site. He follows almost thirty fabulous blogs as well, see it under his Essential Readings tab. Potts said, “I think a lot of journalists—and traditional media executives—are caught up in old ways of thinking about the industry […]
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Mark Potts 3/29/11
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Mark Potts 3/29/11 · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Mark Potts Interesting creative ways to submit news: Wikipedia is an amazing news site. Is away to get a really quick overview an event or something. Using facebook to tell a story… the Washington Post used facebook as a story telling device for a pregnant sick mommy. The people news- straight from the horses mouth. […]
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Guest Speaker- Mark Potts
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest Speaker- Mark Potts · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
“Wikipedia is a great news source” TBD is a lot better than Patch.com “Do what you do best and link to the rest” I don’t do this for money, I do it for respect in my community. Classic stories you see in hyper-local journalism, “What is the vacant BlockBuster store going to turn into?” “RSS, […]
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