Archive for March, 2011

Mar
31

Work at a small local newspaper, either weekly or daily, to get the experience and advice from people who have been doing the things you want to do. Now-a-days with media, media companies want to hire people that can do the job of 5 other people. If your not going to change, you are going […]

“Wikipedia is a great news source” TBD is a lot better than Patch.com “Do what you do best and link to the rest” I don’t do this for money, I do it for respect in my community. Classic stories you see in hyper-local journalism, “What is the vacant BlockBuster store going to turn into?” “RSS, […]

Anderson’s approach towards journalism: “People can tell their own story and be their own witnesses. For instance, know your sources before something happens.” Anderson was a BBC Washington DC corespondent when he was 26. Important to be sources you are using in context. Don’t paintball a bunch of twitter updates and call it a news […]

Mar
22

“Don’t let obstacles become excuses“ Always be a curious journalist. Even if you do not speak the language, find a way. If your lead does not fit in a Twitter status, it’s too long.

Mar
10

News leads need to be published, now. There is so much competition out there now someone else may publish it 5 minutes later, or even 1 minute later. Tweet it, post it, get it out there. Journalism is about the basics. It all starts with the reporting. We find a different angle to stories, find […]

Mar
10
Filed Under (COMM 361, Professor Klein) by on 10-03-2011

This post from my tech blog called, Online Journalism, talks about the five prediction for journalism in the next 25 years. We constantly talk about newspapers fading away in our class discussions, but we have a tendency to cast the future as an exaggerated present. Prediction 1: People will still be predicting the death of […]

Mar
03
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by on 03-03-2011

Jon DeNunzio Be social with your users whenever you can. (ie- polls) Pay attention to the comments Ask for ideas (allourideas.org) Ask for photos Answer user questions Use the knowledge of the crowd DeNunzio is the User Engagement editor of the Washington post. He works on team of about  9 people handling inner activity, handle in […]

Mar
03
Filed Under (COMM 361, Professor Klein) by on 03-03-2011

Is investigative journalism still alive today even with our current technological advances in social media? Investigative journalism can be described in many ways: “uncovering the hidden”; “expensive”; “difficult”; “requiring dedication”; “has impact”; “holding power to account” The hidden So does journalism become investigative when that newness involves uncovering the hidden? I would argue that it is anything […]