Managing News as a Conversation “The speed of communications is wonderful to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.” -Edward R. Murrow It began as comments on news stories and blog posts, this has mushroomed into full social networking tools on news sites. […]
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Briggs Chapter 10
March 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Chapter 10 · Comm361, Facebook, Student Blog Posts
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Chapter ten: Managing news as a conversation
March 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter ten: Managing news as a conversation · Comm361, online journalism, social media, Student Blog Posts
One of the greatest challenges journalists face today is learning how to manage a news conversation. According to Mark Briggs, this begs three questions: How do journalists participate in the conversation without sacrificing their objectivity or credibility? What about legal and ethical issues now that everyone can publish anything they want on a professional news […]
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Guest Speaker: Steve Buttry
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest Speaker: Steve Buttry · Comm361, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts
Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement at TBD, came to speak to our Comm. 361 class today about utilizing social media and digital online tools across various platforms. Copyright: tbd.com Buttry started off his presentation by giving out free goodies from TBD. Hats and iPhone 4 covers with the TBD logo on them. Smart and easy advertising! He […]
Guest speaker: Steve Buttry
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest speaker: Steve Buttry · Comm361, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts
Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement at TBD, spoke to our Comm 371 class about the abilities and effects of video storytelling and how important of a tool it is to help show and explain events. As a writer, you have control of the story. The user can browse to the page they want to […]
Tech Blog #9: Guest Speaker Steve Buttry
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #9: Guest Speaker Steve Buttry · Comm361, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts
Steve Buttry Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement for TBD, joined our class today for a presentation on cross-platform journalism and the different tools and techniques that are applied to many articles and stories today. Check out his Bio, personal Twitter account, and blog, The Buttry Diary, here. Professor Klein noted that Buttry understands the social […]
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Guest speaker: Jim Iovino
March 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest speaker: Jim Iovino · Comm361, Facebook, Student Blog Posts
With the world turning to the internet, NBC Washington takes their television content and puts it on their website. The sooner you get stories out on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc. the more people will acknowledge you as a consistently good reporter. Thus, you will receive more traffic and gain attention. You want to be the first to say […]
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My Video Conference with George Allen on C-SPAN
March 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on My Video Conference with George Allen on C-SPAN · Comm361, Facebook, Student Blog Posts
George Allen is back and on top of his game! Allen participated in a C-SPAN video conference with students from George Mason University and The University of Denver to discuss his upcoming Senate run and his new book “What Washington Can Learn from the World of Sports.” I was one of the lucky students who […]
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My Video Conference with George Allen on C-SPAN
March 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on My Video Conference with George Allen on C-SPAN · Comm361, Facebook, Student Blog Posts
George Allen is back and on top of his game! Allen participated in a C-SPAN video conference with students from George Mason University and The University of Denver to discuss his upcoming Senate run and his new book “What Washington Can Learn from the World of Sports.” I was one of the lucky students who […]
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Ch. 11 ‘Building a digital audience for news’
March 9th, 2011 · Comments Off on Ch. 11 ‘Building a digital audience for news’ · Comm361, social media, Student Blog Posts
The traditional business model for journalism is in disarray. That’s for damn sure true, with everyone having the ability to write what they want on the Internet thanks to technology. To increase an online audience, a journalist needs to: Analyze what is published Determine what readers like and don’t like Do more of what readers […]
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