Rachel Nevares

We’ve all heard the expression “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Mark Briggs says, “Thanks to digital photography, words can easily be replaced with images, improving the experience for the audience and improving the efficiency of the journalist.” Copyright: toothpastefordinner.com Digital photography has become the norm in our culture. Digital photos are captured and […]

“The four billion cellphones in use around the globe carry personal information, provide access to the Web and are being used more and more to navigate the real word. And as cellphones change how we live, computer scientists say, they are also changing how we think about information.” – John Markoff “The audience is going […]

Journalists across all platforms have become incredibly obsessed with how many people are viewing theirarticle(s), as opposed to the next person. Has journalism driven away from it’s true purpose and turned into marketing? This is the point that Joel Achenbach, a Washington Post staff writer, argues in his article titled “I Really Need You to Read […]

Submitting a news story in 140 characters or less? No problem! That’s the new wave for journalists and this type of news publishing is called microblogging. Microblogging is the fastest way for a news organization or journalist to report break news, promote other work, or just be an easier form of contributing information when blogging […]

“News reporting methods such as crowdsourcing, open-source reporting, and pro-am journalism are become the focus for more and more news operations in the United States.” – Mark Briggs This chapter focuses on these three main areas: crowdsourcing, open-source reporting, and pro-am journalism. 1) Crowdsourcing:Focuses on how community has power on a specific project and shows […]