Chapter 6: “Journalism Next” by Mark Briggs
February 23, 2012
You hear time and time again that a photograph taken in the right place at the right time can tell a story that words cannot express. I think what makes images so powerful is their power to stay in your head. We’ve all read great articles and books but you don’t have a mental image […]
Chapter 5: Briggs “Journalism Next”
February 22, 2012
You can’t really talk about journalism without mentioning the power of the smartphone and going mobile. In our Online Journalism class we’ve had two speakers discuss the importance of mobile journalism, from Steve Buttry and Mark Potts. I check my Twitter every morning the same way some people read the paper every morning. Twitter is […]
Chapter 4: “Journalism Next”
February 16, 2012
If you’re not using Twitter, you’re behind. On everything. Chapter four covers microblogging which is short amounts of information online, so essentially Twitter. In my opinion, this chapter reads as a love letter to the site which is fine by me because I can’t live without my Twitter. What makes Twitter so popular, in my […]
Chapter Three: “Journalism Next”
February 7, 2012
The beauty of the Internet is that anyone can use it. You can both consume and create, constantly raising the bar that pushes the standard to a higher level. Crowdsourcing online basically means a number of people all contributing to keep an article updated and accurate. The best example of this is Wikipedia. Articles can […]
Chapter two: “Journalism Next”
February 2, 2012
Chapter two moves on from how to write HTML to the bonuses of blogging. Now blogging, that is way more up my alley. I read blogs daily and although I’ve only kept up a blog for school, but will most likely start keeping one up personally. Briggs writes about how having a blog gets your […]
Chapter One: “Journalism Next”
February 2, 2012
While the introduction reaffirmed the idea that journalism is changing at the same rate as technology, chapter one reaffirmed that I have absolutely no knowledge of HTML and the inside workings of the Internet. The web programming language known as HTML is as foreign to me as Chinese. The tips Briggs has in his book […]
Introduction: “Journalism Next”
February 1, 2012
The introduction of “Journalism Next” by Mark Briggs simply puts that the state of journalism has not only just changed from the past few decades, but that it will continue to change constantly. As a product of the 90s, my world of journalism as I’ve gotten older saw the end of print of journalism as […]
