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 […]

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 […]

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 […]