Silent in the Morning

This chapter teaches readers how to shoot videos for news and feature stories. To begin one must knowhow the different digital cameras are categorized. Brigg’s seperates the cameras into two categories: 1 CCD and 3 CCD (CCD = charge coupled device). These measures tell you whether the camera has one computer chip or three computer […]

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*This chapter was very insightful in providing me with the necessary steps to be a successful journalist in the every changing news reporting industry.* The chapter itself revolves around the words of Phil Meyer in his book, “The New Precision Journalism,” where he exclaims, ““If you are a journalist, or thinking of becoming one, you […]

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This chapter provides readers with a look into the new technologies and Websites such as Flickr, Myspace, Wikipedia, and del.icio.us. Brigg’s highlights these four because they have changed the way people consume news and information. As for why the chapter is labeled “Web 2.0”, Brigg’s explains how the term “Web 2.0” refers to Web sites […]

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In the first chapter, Brigg’s provides readers with the essential concepts and terms necessary to thrive in the “digital age”. The first section focuses on megabytes, gigabytes, and terabytes. According to Brigg’s,the whole digital evolution can be explained in bits and bytes. A byte is a unit of measure for digital information. A single byte […]

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