Abdirashid Dahir on Dipity. A recent post by Mindy McAdams about the use of timelines in journalism had me wanting to try out the idea. I thought the recent case of George Mason student Abdirashid Dahir would lend itself to a timeline. How quickly events happened after the Sarah Evans Facebook post would help to […]
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George Mason University and the Use of Social Media in the Case of Abdirashid Dahir
April 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off on George Mason University and the Use of Social Media in the Case of Abdirashid Dahir · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Mark Potts visit
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Mark Potts visit · Comm361, Facebook, online journalism, Student Blog Posts
Mark Potts started out by stating that Wikipedia is a sort of new site. It’s useful because it’s built by the crowd and articles can be built instantly. The Washington Post implemented Facebook to tell a story about a mother who gave birth and then got sick a couple months ago. Potts said this story […]
Tags:COMM 361·Journalism·Julian Assange·Media·Mobile technology·RSS·Twitter·Washington Post·Web analytics·WikiLeaks·Wikipedia
Guest Speaker: Jim Iovino
March 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest Speaker: Jim Iovino · Comm361, Student Blog Posts, video
Jim Iovino, editor from NBC Washington, came and spoke to our Comm. 361 class today. He spoke to us about online journalism and how to make it better than the next person. Copyright: megancloherty.com Iovino started his journalism working as a writer for a newspaper in Pittsburgh, then transferred over to TV, then was a […]
Tags:Blogs·jim iovino·Journalism·nbc washington·Tech Blog Items
Facebook Journalism On The Rise
March 9th, 2011 · Comments Off on Facebook Journalism On The Rise · Comm361, Facebook, Student Blog Posts
Facebook is not only a place to connect with friends, it is now more and more a way to connect with news. A recent post by Vadim Lavrusik on Mashable talks about this growing trend. Facebook journalism is on the rise because the social media site is b…
Dan Rather and Tucker Carlson C-Span
March 1st, 2011 · Comments Off on Dan Rather and Tucker Carlson C-Span · Comm361, online journalism, Student Blog Posts
Dan Rather and Tucker Carlson spoke with George Mason students through video conference on Feb. 24, 2011 to speak about the state of journalism and where it’s headed. Rather, who was the news anchor for the CBS Evening News from 1981 to 2005 and is now the anchor of Dan Rather Reports on HDNet and […]
Ch.3 ‘Crowd-powered collaboration’
February 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on Ch.3 ‘Crowd-powered collaboration’ · Comm361, online journalism, Student Blog Posts
“The hunter-gatherer model of journalism is no long sufficient. Citizens can do their own hunting and gathering on the Internet. What they need is somebody to add value to that information by processing it–digesting it, organizing it, making it usable.” — Phil Meyer, author of “Precision Journalism” Briggs starts out the third chapter of “Journalism […]
Tags:"Journalism Next"·COMM 361·Crowdsourcing·Journalism·Mark Briggs·Patch·TBD
Chapter three: Crowd-powered collaboration
February 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter three: Crowd-powered collaboration · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
In chapter three, Mark Briggs focuses on the new types of reporting methods that are becoming more prevalent in this day and age. Crowdsourcing Coined by Wired News’ Jeff Howe in 2006, this term basically means distributed reporting. It is using a lot of news sources at a given time to help research a specific […]
Tags:Briggs Chapter Summaries·Crowdsourcing·Journalism·Open reporting·Pro-am Journalism
Mandy Jenkins Visits COMM 361
February 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on Mandy Jenkins Visits COMM 361 · Comm361, social media, Student Blog Posts
There’s a famous saying that the harder you work, the luckier you get. This saying holds true for Mandy Jenkins, director of social media for TBD. Coming from a town in rural Ohio, Jenkins has always worked hard. She wanted to be a part of the media world; however, she discovered that her career path […]
