Digital life is based upon a gratuitous amount of information and data; therefore, managing the data is the most critical part of digital life in journalism. Organized data not only helps journalists retrieve their memories from certain events via computer-assisted reporting, but also helps keeping in contact with colleagues and people of interest, and even […]
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Chapter 9: Data-Driven Journalism and Digitizing Your Life
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 9: Data-Driven Journalism and Digitizing Your Life · Comm361, New York Times, Student Blog Posts
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‘JournalismNext’ Chapter 10 Summary
March 9th, 2011 · Comments Off on ‘JournalismNext’ Chapter 10 Summary · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
News is a conversation now, not a lecture, and there is no going back, says Mark Briggs in Chapter 10. Briggs acknowledges that some journalists would prefer a lecture style of news, but says that journalism is made better by audience participation. Th…
Chapter 10: Managing News as a Conversation
March 7th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 10: Managing News as a Conversation · Comm361, Facebook, Student Blog Posts
Questions and challenges for the modern journalism: How to maintain objectivity or credibility Legal and ethical issues with publishing freedom for everyone How to gather the audience With social networking tools and blogs embedded on news sites, conversing the news is possible. One can converse through comments or social networking (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc.). This […]
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Chapter 8: Telling Stories with Video
March 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 8: Telling Stories with Video · Comm361, Student Blog Posts, video
Thanks to the emergence of cheap video cameras and free video-editing softwares, video journalism has become easier than ever. Even without purchasing over $35,000 worth equipments that used to be requirements, anyone can produce high-quality videos and upload in Web. It has become so easy that millions around the world frequently upload videos. In mid […]
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Chapter 7: Making Audio Journalism Visible
March 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 7: Making Audio Journalism Visible · Comm361, multimedia, Student Blog Posts
Some might say audio journalism is not as exciting as video or Web journalism, and will die along with newspaper. Despite this belief, because of its distinct taste and unique content delivery, audio journalism is strong and will be strong as long as there are listeners who seek its essence. For example, 14 million downloads […]
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Chapter 5: Going Mobile
February 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 5: Going Mobile · Comm361, New York Times, Student Blog Posts
In New York Times in 2009, John Markoff wrote “the four billion cellphones in use around the globe carry personal information, provide access to the Web and are being used more and more to navigate the real world.” The mobile technology already has evolved enough to create a whole new field in journalism: mobile reporting. Due […]
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