Photos are worth a million words. This is stressed greatly by Briggs in chapter 6. I think that stories can be told over and over again but may change over time. A photo stays the exact same no matter who is seeing it. A photo that I feel I feel is worth a million words […]
February 23, 2012
iPad 3 Facts? Maybe..
I came across this article by John Cox that really gave me an idea of the major “what if’s” that are hidden behind the up and coming iPad 3 Some of the major things discussed in this article are: – Two stock analysts are predicting that iPad 3 will only be the first Next iPad […]
February 21, 2012
Briggs Chapter 5: Going Mobile
Technology has come a very long way within the last 10 years. It has gone from big bulky cell phones to the smallest way to record and spread your message about anything. Briggs talks about mobile journalism in chapter 5. According too a newspaper in London, on average, a person gets their first cell phone […]
February 16, 2012
February 14, 2012
Briggs Chapters 3 and 4
Briggs Chapter 3 Chapter 3 really went in on the topic of crowed-source reporting and open-source reporting. Before reading this chapter, I honestly really didn’t know what they were about. It really opened my eyes to what I have been overlooking. Crowed-sourcing is important because it really depends on its committed users to keep everything […]
Special Guest Speaker Steven Buttry
Here are some highlighted noted I took from this lecture – “Digital tools are so versatile that they are only limited to our imagination” Buttry – “You don’t use all tools on a single story or it just becomes chaotic” – Buttry – Twitter’s natural character limitations keep sentences at an appropriate length for journalism […]
February 7, 2012
The Wise Words of Mark Briggs
When someone thinks about journalism, they think of newspapers. When someone thinks of newspapers, they think about the decline of newspapers and might be misinformed on the true facts behind that statement. Briggs really opens ones eyes to where journalism once was to where it is heading in the near and distant future. Chapters one […]
Goodbye Paper, Hello Future
Can you think back to the last time you actually took the time to sit down and read a newspaper at your table? Yea neither can I.. Professor Kline has asked our class of young future reporters to read this article from The Washington Post and express how we feel. The Article is titled “I […]
Media Pyramid
This is my media pyramid. At the top of the list is twitter. Twitter is the way I really connect to the world. It updates me every second of every day with different sources of information. I follow different new sources that also keep me up to date with what is going on in the […]