Online Journalism

Mark Stencel is the managing editor for digital news at NPR. He worked at the Washington Post for 12 years. NPR is a public broadcast outlet. It’s a non-profit. Non-profit is more as a tax status, the most money they make come from donations that local stations make. NPR keeps those organizations up-to-date. NPR loves […]

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Mark Stencel, Managing Editor for Digital News at National Public Radio, spoke to our class today about the challenges radio faces in the media today. Stencel first started working in online journalism back in 1991, when it was called “new media.” Check out his personal Twitter and his NPR bio. Stencel says that NPR has […]

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Mark Stencel visted our class on April 12 2011. A highly credential individual Professor Klein tells us he’s a pioneer in news reporting. Stencel is a digital editor for NPR.

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The managing editor for digital news for National Public Radio, Mark Stencel, was with us in class today. “It’s kind of hard to say anything you’ve been doing for 16 years ‘new,’” Mark began. According to Mark, NPR only works nowadays because people are stuck in traffic for hours, especially in the District. People can’t […]

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Works with NPR: National Public Radio. Their audience has grown because more and more people are driving and getting caught in traffic. With nothing to do in the car, they tune into NPR. Use images in radio journalism by painting it in your head. Online, we need pictures that speak for themselves. Arts, entertainment, and […]

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As I mentioned in a previous post, “Survivor” host Jeff Probst recently began to tweet along with the show. As a hardcore fan, I appreciate the gesture but remain unsatisfied with the lack of real details Probst provides. However, that didn’t stop CBS from declaring last week “Tweet Week” and enlisting more of its stars […]

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What does a mobile journalist need? I’ve compiled 4 lists of things I think a mobile journalist needs: hardware, software, systems, and mindset. I’d welcome anything you can add to this. Using the information I have learned from class I will also add to this list. Mobile journalism – hardware Smartphone with camera, video, audio, […]

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When I did a post about Tumblr it left me with a lot of questions about another site, Posterous. I wanted to find out what it was, how it compared to Tumblr, and why it was on the radar of the tech-savvy people at Mashable. Some of the answers to my questions were in a […]

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