Online Journalism

                           “Quality content published in some significant quantity, and engineered to be easily found in search engines, is a recipe for a successful digital publishing business.” Capture new online readership with useful and engaging tags Good writing still prevails Analyze what your readers like and don’t like, then […]

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Course: RSCH 110-005, in Fenwick Library, Room A214. Described as follows: “Zotero is a Firefox browser based utility that makes capturing bibliographic content from around the Web a snap! Learn how to install and manipulate your own Zotero library.” Right now, Zotero only works through Firefox. It helps you “collect, organize, cite and share your […]

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Managing News as a Conversation First of all, I find this book really hard to keep open when trying to reference to it. Other than that though, lets talk about this chapter. This chapter goes into about how journalist do … Continue reading →

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In a C-Span video conference with George Mason University students, former Virginia Governor and former U.S. Senator George Allen discussed what it means to relate the U.S. government to sports. This time, though, he’s stepping up his own game — to be reelected in 2012. Allen outlined to the class the reasons he believed he lost […]

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Former Senator George Allen (R-Va.), who announced that he will be running for his old seat in the 2012 Senate race, met with C-SPAN’s Steve Scully to discuss federal and state spending. Allen, who strongly believes that more decisions should be made by the people, said that the federal government should not be starting new […]

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Visual Storytelling with Photographs “The ability to publish to a global audience for free, with just a few clicks, opened up te world to a cacophy of new voices.” -Biggs So who is considered a photogropher now?: You Me Anyone with a camera Anyone with a cell phone camera There are two primary kinds of […]

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“American journalism needs a spine transplant,” stressed Dan Rather, famous American journalist, in a CSPAN video conference on February 24, 2011. Students from George Mason University, Pace University, and University of Denver all participated in the conference, provided by C-SPAN’s distance learning program. Joining Rather was Tucker Carlson, a political news correspondent and editor-in chief […]

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“Circulation is down. Ad revenue is down. Staffers are facing week-long furloughs, yet again. There are whispers that USA Today is in trouble. The classifieds business is pretty much gone. Newspapers are dying. The broadcast business isn’t much better. Even the company-backed Newseum is a disaster.” That quote was taken from Mark Potts’ latest blog post and I think that […]

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According to Mark Potts, he has been noticing something about his news consumption over the past few months.  While he rarely has looked at newspapers the past few years, and rarely looks at newspaper Web site home pages and consumes a huge amount of news via RSS feeds and Twitter, one site has emerged as […]

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Journalist and former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, along with political news correspondent Tucker Carlson, appeared in a C-SPAN video conference with George Mason University. Both guests answered questions from students ranging from the current situation in Egypt to their careers in the media. Rather stressed the importance of determination in young journalists and the […]

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