Online Journalism

Former Chief of Staff for the First Lady Anita McBride video conferenced with us today, and, boy, has she worked in the White House for quite a while. McBride said that she never looked back after campaigning in 1980. Between 1987 and 1992, she was the Director of White House Personnel under both President Ronald Reagan and […]

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Former Chief of Staff to the First Lady Anita McBride joined our class via C-SPAN to discuss her work in the White House. Checkout some background information about McBride here and her work as a contributor at The Daily Beast. She is currently a professor at American University. As a veteran of three administrations, McBride […]

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Anita McBride, former chief of staff to former First Lady Laura Bush, discussed the roles and challenges of being a first lady during a C-SPAN interview on April 14 with political editor Steve Scully and students from George Mason University, Purdue University and the University of Denver. Being the first lady is the “most important, […]

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Mandy Jenkins who is now D.C. Social News Editor at The Huffington Post wrote a very interesting post on her blog about the importance being the first person and/or news organization to get a story out first. What was really interesting was that Jenkins said that many reporters and journalists feel that there is a […]

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Brad Kalbfeld, author of the Associated Press Broadcast News Handbook and managing editor for the Associated Press, came and spoke to our Comm. 361 class on April 5, 2011. Kalbfeld spoke about much of the history of journalism and how it’s evolved us into today’s journalism. Copyright: apbroadcast.com He started off his presentation by showing […]

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Summary: Mark Stencel, currently the managing editor for digital news at National Public Radio, discusses how NPR expanded beyond being a radio only news outlet by utilizing multimedia and social networking sites, while highlighting the trends and tribulations in online journalism today. National Public Radio loves traffic, and may be the only people who do […]

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Mark Stencel, managing editor for digital news at NPR, is a pioneer of the cross-platform news experience. NPR is one of the largest, most consumed news organizations in North America but the bulk of that is because of radio listeners, not an online audience. NPR struggles to get people on to its website. One tidbit […]

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New Media, New Rules? Navigating NPR’s Multimedia Future BREAKLIGHTS MEAN listeners! Challange…. a lot of people when they get to work, they dont check out the website. Its hard enough to write a story for tomorrow news paper… its even … Continue reading →

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