“We haven’t fully taken advantage of the medium,” said Mark Potts, commenting on the vast world of the Internet. Mark Potts, creator of RecoveringJournalist, his blog, came in to speak to our class today! He offered some useful opinions on great ways to tell stories. Potts began with Patch.com. “It’s important because it’s close to […]
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Tech Blog #11: Guest Speaker Mark Potts, Owner of RecoveringJournalist.com
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #11: Guest Speaker Mark Potts, Owner of RecoveringJournalist.com · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
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Skype session with Kevin Anderson
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Skype session with Kevin Anderson · Comm361, Storify, Student Blog Posts
Courtesy of his Twitter; Kevin Anderson: Digital strategist and freelance journalist with more than a decade experience with the Guardian and the BBC. Helping create the future of journalism. FOLLOW HIM ON TWITTER! On Thursday, March 24, 2011, Anderson skyped in to chat! Being half way accross the world didn’t stop him from making his […]
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Briggs Chapter 10
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Chapter 10 · Comm361, Facebook, Student Blog Posts
Managing News as a Conversation “The speed of communications is wonderful to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.” -Edward R. Murrow It began as comments on news stories and blog posts, this has mushroomed into full social networking tools on news sites. […]
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Briggs Chapter 7
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Chapter 7 · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Making Audio Journalism Visible Audio Journalism? It works when using a few tools like a microphone or recorder to make full-featured segments that sound like radio epidodes. You can distribute them as podcosts to gain an audience! Importance: Presence Emotions Atmosphere How to use this audio? Reporter overview Podcasts Audio slide show Breaking news National Public Radio has […]
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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 11: Building a digital audience for news
March 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 11: Building a digital audience for news · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
There is no denying that the Internet has changed the world. So, how do we keep up with it? For most of us, using the Internet doesn’t cost much. So, why pay 50 cents for a newspaper when you have access to all the information in the world for free? One way journalists are trying […]
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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Off The Written Path 2011-03-26 23:20:04
March 26th, 2011 · Comments Off on Off The Written Path 2011-03-26 23:20:04 · Comm361, Steve Buttry, Storify, Student Blog Posts
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