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Chapter 11: Building a digital audience for news

March 27th, 2011 March 27th, 2011
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There is no denying that the Internet has changed the world. So, how do we keep up with it? For most of us, using the Internet doesn’t cost much. So, why pay 50 cents for a newspaper when you have access to all the information in the world for free? One way journalists are trying […]

Chapter ten: Managing news as a conversation

March 27th, 2011 March 27th, 2011
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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 […]

Chapter nine: Data-drive journalism and digitizing your life

March 25th, 2011 March 25th, 2011
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There are some things everyone should know about when it comes to data productivity and organization. What you need to manage + the right tools to manage = personal productivity We often feel the need to organize our digital data. Things like e-mail, contacts, to-do lists, calendars and word documents. Tools such as Google, Office […]

Chapter eight: Telling stories with video

March 10th, 2011 March 10th, 2011
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These days, as long as you have a phone with a camera, you are armed with one of the most powerful tools on the planet: a video camera. What words and pictures can’t capture, video does. From World Cup soccer matches to political revolutions to weddings, video captures it all with the click of a […]

Chapter seven: Making audio journalism visible

February 23rd, 2011 February 23rd, 2011
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Painting sound pictures for listeners is a skill that takes much practice, according to Mark Briggs. Thank god, we have audio journalism to help us with that. The good thing about audio journalism is that it can be done with a handful of tools — a microphone, recorder and free software. Long gone are the […]

Chapter six: Visual storytelling with photographs

February 18th, 2011 February 18th, 2011
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“Journalism without photographs is like writing without words,” says according to Mark Briggs, author of “Journalism Next.” In this day and age, we are lucky to have digital technology because it’s made our life much easier. No more taking those big bulky cameras out to site. Some old-timers might relish in classic technology and not […]

Chapter 5: Mobile journalism

February 18th, 2011 February 18th, 2011
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According to a research poll in the Daily Telegraph, children living in the United Kingdom receive their first cell phone at the age of eight. Similarly, two-thirds of all Americans own a cell phone. Shocking? Amusing? Boring? Well, either way, we can all agree that mobile journalism is changing the news world. It brings the […]

Chapter four: Microblogging

February 15th, 2011 February 15th, 2011
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Twitter. It’s the one thing that comes to mind when you hear the word microblogging. In what way can we possibly cover news in less than 140 characters? What is microblogging? It’s the idea that lets individuals write and share small content of news online via short sentences, images or video links. It is an […]

Chapter three: Crowd-powered collaboration

February 15th, 2011 February 15th, 2011
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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 […]

Chapter two: The basics of blogging

February 14th, 2011 February 14th, 2011
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In Mark Briggs’ second chapter “Advanced Blogging,” he focuses on the essentials of blogging. His main points of the chapters are summarized as the following: Good blogs are a continuing conversation: If you write a blog, it is necessary to create a reader’s base to get some feedback. This enables you to continue the conversation […]