In Briggs Handbook, Journalism Next, Chapter 9 is titled “Data-Driven Journalism and Digitizing Your Life”. This basically means the importance of data in any news story. Briggs goes on to say that technology is all around us, why not use it? Tools can only help you as a news journalist. There are so many free […]
March 21, 2012
Briggs Chapter 8
In Briggs Handbook, Journalism Next, Chapter 8 is all about video and how it is imported to use it to have a very successful blog. There are different hints he drops about videos to help them have a more positive effect rather than negative. The length of the video is very important. A video of […]
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 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 […]
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 […]