In this chapter, Briggs provides readers with ways in which one can make smart business decisions in order to survive in today’s age of journalism. He highlights the fundamentals of building an audience online, including: – Tracking your content As for tracking your content, Briggs brings up a starter list of content types journalist and […]
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Chapter 11: Building a Digital Audience for News
March 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Brigg's Chapter Reviews
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Chapter 10: Managing News as a Conversation
March 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Brigg's Chapter Reviews
This chapter simply explains to readers how important it is for reporters and journalist to get out of their offices or abodes and go out and speak to people. As the World of News Reporting changes everyday, it has become apparent that utilizing such community web pages like Facebook, and Myspace, which simply allows journalist […]
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Chapter 9: Data-Driven Journalism and Digitizing Your Life
March 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Brigg's Chapter Reviews
Well….this chapter right here explains my life in a nutshell. I attempt to organize my daily/weekly tasks all time time using a variety of different outlets, however, nothing ever seems to work. What Briggs provided in this chapter is the proper way in which one can utilize a variety of online databases to organize contacts, […]
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Chapter 8: Telling Stories With Videos
March 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Brigg's Chapter Reviews
After reading Brigg’s Chapter on “Telling Stories With Videos”, it struck me at how innovative and important videos have become in delivering people news and information. A video to get you thinking… While reading the chapter, several main points stuck out in my mind. Be selective in shooting. There are two good reasons for this: […]
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Bob Shrum
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · C-SPAN Video Conferences
Bob Shrum, an American political consultant, spoke Thursday to students from three campuses around the United States. Broadcasting live from C-SPAN studios alongside Steve Scully, the political editor for the C-SPAN networks, Shrum joined students participating from the George Mason University Video Studio, as well as, students from the University of Denver and Pace University. […]
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Chapter 5: Going Mobile
March 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Brigg's Chapter Reviews
In this chapter, Brigg’s opens reader’s eyes to the importance of utilizing a mobile devices to publish news on the go. From a journalist standpoint its important to use the phone to capture images, sounds, and even publish stories right from the palm of one’s hand. As a result, Brigg’s outlines the gears, gadgets and […]
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Chapter 3: Crowd-Powered Collaboration
March 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Brigg's Chapter Reviews
In this chapter, Brigg’s outlines the new fad known as collaborative publishing. He presents different ways in which journalist can utilize a variety of new tools on the web, in order to ease their interaction with their readers. Some of these tools include: Crowd sourcing: is a relatively new term, coined by Jeff Howe in […]
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