Online Journalism

Jim Iovino, managing editor for NBC Washington, is visiting our COMM 361 class today. Iovino graduated from Penn State with a major in Communications. He first started work in the newspaper industry, jumped to television, and is now doing online journalism. He graduated from Penn State University with a major in communications. He started working in the […]

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Jim Ioveno Most stories break on website. Developed story is given later that day in the newscast                 -purpose: immediacy.                 -information travels extremely fast- you want to break the story first. Pat Collins- “Snow reporter”                 “Incredible reporter because he can get whoever he talks to say something interesting”                                 -Find an angle to […]

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News 4 employee Jim Iovino was with us in class today! At the start of class, he brought up this video of News 4 weatherman Pat Collins interviewing “Sandwich Girl“: On that day, every other channel is covering the storm — how could they make it interesting? Or, at the very least, MORE interesting than […]

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Jim Iovino, Managing Editor of the website NBC Washington, spoke to our class today about different types of cross-platform journalism. Iovino began his career in print journalism, but soon switched to online journalism due to the downsizing of newspapers and other print content. Most of the news content on the NBC Washington wesbite is original, however some stories […]

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News leads need to be published, now. There is so much competition out there now someone else may publish it 5 minutes later, or even 1 minute later. Tweet it, post it, get it out there. Journalism is about the basics. It all starts with the reporting. We find a different angle to stories, find […]

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Jim Iovino Jim Iovino graduated from Penn State University hoping to become a sports writer. Iovino succeeded in his dream early with a simple news letter with his friends about hockey. The creation of LCS Hockey became a in print news letter. However, with print journalism dieing Iovino knew he and his friends must take […]

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This just popped into my head during class.. Does anyone else see the resemblance between gmu online journalism professor Steve Klien and Sean Connery?

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Our project’s goal is to recover NAMI Northern Virginia history and present it interactively. We will conduct interviews with past board members, do research about the institution, and gather information about its history. We will be using different online platforms to organize and present the information. Our project will be constructed around an interactive timeline. […]

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I have one word to summarize this article: Perfect. It’s short. It’s catchy. It keeps you reading more. Wait. Does that make me a lazy bastard, too? Probably. But it’s true and everyone else is one. We love short sentences, like the ones I used to start this entry, with bold-face words that attract our […]

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