Skype session with Kevin Anderson

March 28th, 2011  Tagged , , , , , , ,

Courtesy of his Twitter; Kevin Anderson: Digital strategist and freelance journalist with more than a decade experience with the Guardian and the BBC. Helping create the future of journalism. FOLLOW HIM ON TWITTER! On Thursday, March 24, 2011, Anderson skyped in to chat! Being half way accross the world didn’t stop him from making his […]

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Briggs Chapter 10

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Managing News as a Conversation “The speed of communications is wonderful to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.” –Edward R. Murrow It began as comments on news stories and blog posts, this has mushroomed into full social networking tools on news sites. […]

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Briggs Chapter 7

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Making Audio Journalism Visible Audio Journalism? It works when using a few tools like a microphone or recorder to make full-featured segments that sound like radio epidodes. You can distribute them as podcosts to gain an audience! Importance: Presence Emotions Atmosphere How to use this audio?  Reporter overview Podcasts Audio slide show Breaking news National Public Radio has […]

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