Silent in the Morning

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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