Online Journalism

First we were forced to switch from the type-writer to the computer. Then came the transition from the print media to Internet media. Now we are being thrust in to a world of photojournalism, blog journalism, Twitter journalism, and most importantly: audio journalism. You might be asking yourself what is so great about audio journalism. […]

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Top 10 twitter this week Charlie Sheen has taken over Twitter and now has 800,00 followers! And that was just in 24 hours! All because 2 and half men stopped. Justin Bieber is so famous, I do not see what the big deal is about this kid. But he is ranked #2 for Twitter’s top […]

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Managing News as a Conversation Blogs have become a journalism conversation blogspot twitter facebook myspace You can converse through comments. not so simple, sometimes mean and ugly Benefits: provide transparency enable an immediate feedback spread awareness of news coverage through word-of-mouth marketing New conversation is important: feedback keeping the reader involved keeping the public in-tune […]

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Telling Stories with Video Impact of digital video: youtube the only way to learn is to do make your mistakes as quickly as possible can tell a better story than writing perfection is not necessary great sometimes takes too long for what the story deserves quick and unpolished video content on news sites often draws […]

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Making Audio Journalism Visible “Somehow audio has been considered the ‘invisble’ medium,” Karin Hogh “However, if done right, audio can be as powerful in journalism as written articles or even TV and videos.” Audio Journalism Presence: On location, a reporter can literally bring readers to the story. Being there boots credibility and interest. Emotions: has […]

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Visual Storytelling with Photographs That old saying…”A Picture is worth a 1000 words”… that is this chapter. Digital Photography: Take as many pictures as you want immediately see what you have taken a pic of upload to share whenever and with whoever don’t buy film easy to edit pictures on a computer Get to know […]

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Going Mobile Learning how to: What kinds of stories lend themselves to mobile reporting What technology you need How to use selected mobile publishing services for text, photographs, and video How professional news organizations use mobile to complement their existing publishing platforms. Mobile Journalism Journalism is not journalism until published. mobile journalism makes this immediate. […]

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Microblogging “its a great way to she a link to the article you’ve written,” Alana Taylor. Microblogging is an instant messaging journal. Can be done by texting, instant messaging, e-mail, digital audio or by posting to the web. Compared to being in a big room with lots of people you like and that like you […]

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“Journalism is constantly changing.” This is how guest speaker Jon DeNunzio, user engagement editor for washingtonpost.com, started off his presentation that was given to our Comm. 361 class. DeNunzio gave us some interesting background information about himself to begin: Worked for a few small papers after college 1994: Started at The Washington Post 2000-2007: Covered high school […]

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This chapter goes in deep about how to make sound… more than sound… but making it visible. At first I thought I already knew the answer to such an amazing question… video! But I was sure wrong. As somebody who … Continue reading →

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