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Steve Buttry’s visit

March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Steve Buttry’s visit · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Steve Buttry Reporting has changed with innovation.                 -Can’t just interview people. You need to gather sounds and video. Many websites work on innovative ways to present stories. Example Example 2 -“You can sometimes tell a story with words in audio than written words” Innovations give control to the users                 “Thinking of all the […]

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Guest Speaker: Steve Buttry from TBD

March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest Speaker: Steve Buttry from TBD · Comm361, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts

“Don’t let obstacles become excuses“ Always be a curious journalist. Even if you do not speak the language, find a way. If your lead does not fit in a Twitter status, it’s too long.

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Tech Blog #9: Guest Speaker Steve Buttry

March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #9: Guest Speaker Steve Buttry · Comm361, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts

Steve Buttry Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement for TBD, joined our class today for a presentation on cross-platform journalism and the different tools and techniques that are applied to many articles and stories today. Check out his Bio, personal Twitter account, and blog, The Buttry Diary, here. Professor Klein noted that Buttry understands the social […]

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Tech Blog #9: Guest Speaker Steve Buttry, TBD.com’s Director of Community Engagement

March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #9: Guest Speaker Steve Buttry, TBD.com’s Director of Community Engagement · Comm361, New York Times, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts

Director of Community Engagement Steve Buttry for TBD.com was in class with us today! Buttry started by showing us a social media project that the Star Tribune worked on in mid- to late-2007. It involved a slide show of pictures and sounds that depicted the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Minn. The bridge used to […]

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Guest Speaker: Steve Buttry

March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest Speaker: Steve Buttry · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement at TBD visited our class on Tuesday, March 22. He showed us a lot of great interactive sites that can be used by electronic journalists. Check out some of the links below – the stories are interesting, but the way each story is told is even more amazing! 13 Seconds […]

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Chapter 8: Telling stories with video

March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 8: Telling stories with video · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Summary: Video provides a compelling medium for telling a story. Quality can range from the highly produced to a grainy web cam, depending on whether it appears on broadcast television or on the Web. The quality versus quantity debate is irrelevant in online journalism, a compelling video does not have to be aesthetic perfection. Everyone […]

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Briggs Ch. 9 – ‘Data-driven journalism and digitizing your life’

March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 9 – ‘Data-driven journalism and digitizing your life’ · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Organizing your digital life was the focus of this chapter. There are many free or trial programs that can help you organize your digital self. Since these programs are online, they are easily edited and can be accessible to others. Some examples: Backpack Zoho MS Office Suite (Outlook, etc) Dropbox Basecamp Databases are helpful in […]

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Briggs Ch. 8 – ‘Telling stories with video’

March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 8 – ‘Telling stories with video’ · Comm361, Student Blog Posts, video

Video storytelling was the concept of this chapter. Now anyone can use the digital equipment around them to create video storytelling, it just takes a lot of practice. Thanks to YouTube, the quality of the video doesn’t have to be very high. What’s important is authenticity. The most entertaining videos get re-posted over and over. […]

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‘Journalism Next’ Chapter 8 Summary

March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on ‘Journalism Next’ Chapter 8 Summary · Comm361, Student Blog Posts

Video is “the most powerful type of visual journalism,” according to Mark Briggs. In Chapter 8 of “Journalism Next” Briggs describes how journalists can get on the video bandwagon. This might come as a shock to journalism students but apparently quality of the video does not matter. It can be amateur video or some professionally done […]

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Chapter 9: Data-Driven Journalism and Digitizing Your Life

March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 9: Data-Driven Journalism and Digitizing Your Life · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts

“There is no such thing as information overload, only filter failure”, stated Clay Shirky during a presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo in September 2008. According to Briggs there are two challenges to all this information: Personal: being able to take advantage of all the tools out there to manage your day. Professional: seizing these opportunities […]

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