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“There is no such thing as information overload, only filter failure”, stated Clay Shirky during a presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo in September 2008. According to Briggs there are two challenges to all this information: Personal: being able to take advantage of all the tools out there to manage your day. Professional: seizing these opportunities […]

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Chapter 8: Telling Stories with Video

Some things just can’t be expressed with words. That’s where the POWER of videos comes in. Copyright: avcreative.co.uk “The tools have changed, but the game remains the same: visual journalism is about telling compelling stories that connect an audience with subjects, people and issues.” – Mark Briggs First thing to know about making videos to […]

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Guest Speaker: Jim Iovino

Jim Iovino, editor from NBC Washington, came and spoke to our Comm. 361 class today. He spoke to us about online journalism and how to make it better than the next person.  Copyright: megancloherty.com Iovino started his journalism working as a writer for a newspaper in Pittsburgh, then transferred over to TV, then was a […]

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MindMeister: NoVa Cool Cats Project

My team, which is comprised of Melissa, Ryan, Nick, Lijam and Julia, is doing our project on theraputic hockey. We are specifically focusing on the NoVa Cool Cats hockey team based in the Northern Virginia area. Our team created a storyboard on MindMeister, which can be found here. My role in the project is to […]

  Copyright: people.com “American journalism, in many ways, needs a spine transplant,” Rather said, “We’ve lost some of the grit in our gut.” This was just one of the many things that Dan Rather had to say about being a journalist and where journalism is in our current social media frenzy of a world. On […]

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