Rachel Nevares

“Now that news is a conversation, one of the greatest challenges facing journalists is how to manage, and leverage, that conversation.” – Mark Briggs According to Briggs, journalism now means 1) managing online communities as well as 2) participating in various social networks. Audiences being able to comment on stories online and voice their opinions is […]

“Journalism is constantly changing.” This is how guest speaker Jon DeNunzio, user engagement editor for washingtonpost.com, started off his presentation that was given to our Comm. 361 class. DeNunzio gave us some interesting background information about himself to begin: Worked for a few small papers after college 1994: Started at The Washington Post 2000-2007: Covered high school […]

You never know when just an act of fun can turn into a social media frenzy. The article titled “How an Atlanta Ice Skater Made a Viral Video Go Worldwide“, byTerri Thorton, is an amazing example of how an innocent video placed on a social media outlet can go a long way in the world. The article […]

“Reporters and journalism students must stop thinking about sound as an exclusively radio format and adopt it as a reporting tool that can be learned and used to effectively deliver information to readers or listeners.” –Jim Stovall Audio journalism, very simply and obviously put, is getting journalism out through the means of audio. Audio allows the listener to […]

This couldn’t be a better article for the relevance of this Comm. 361 Online Journalism class. This article gives an excellent overview of some innovative websites that can be used for classes dealing with journalism. MediaShift is a website which tracks how social media, weblogs, podcasting, citizen journalism, wikis, news aggregators and online video are changing […]