Lecture by Mark Potts from Recoveringjournalist.com

March 29th, 2011  Tagged , , , , , , , ,

He’s here! Mark Potts is right here in front of me. About ten feet away, honestly. Here is his site. He follows almost thirty fabulous blogs as well, see it under his Essential Readings tab. Potts said, “I think a lot of journalists—and traditional media executives—are caught up in old ways of thinking about the industry […]

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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

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

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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My Video Conference with George Allen on C-SPAN

March 10th, 2011  Tagged , , , , , , ,

George Allen is back and on top of his game! Allen participated in a C-SPAN video conference with students from George Mason University and The University of Denver to discuss his upcoming Senate run and his new book “What Washington Can Learn from the World of Sports.” I was one of the lucky students who […]

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Briggs Chapter 5

February 24th, 2011  Tagged , , , , , , ,

Going Mobile: Mobile reporting. “According to an article in the Daily Telegraph, a London newspaper, children in the United Kingdom get their first mobile phones at age 8” said Briggs. Anyone one the ground can technically become a reporter at any given time that something newsworthy breaks out in front of them. A child could […]

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