Chris Cillizza, political blogger from “The Fix” for the Washington Post, joined students participating from the George Mason University Video Studio along with Steve Scully, the political editor for the C-SPAN networks, and students from the University of Denver and Pace University to talk about the 2010 midterm elections. The race in Massachusetts between Democratic […]

Bob Schieffer, moderator of the Sunday public affairs show, Face The Nation, joined students participating from the George Mason University Video Studio along with Steve Scully, the political editor for the C-SPAN networks, and students from the University of Denver and Pace University to share some stories, laughs, and helpful tips for the aspiring journalists. […]

Marjorie Randon Hershey, professor of Political Science at Indiana University and author of “Party Politics in America (13th Edition), joined students participating from the George Mason University Video Studio along with Steve Scully, the political editor for the C-SPAN networks, and students from the University of Denver and Pace University to discuss January’s 5-4 SCOTUS […]

Chapter 11: Building a Digital Audience for News Analyzing what you publish, making sure you know what you’re readers like and don’t like will help to build your audience, as well as using engaging tags and of course good writing. Make your content new, relevant, and easily accessible to new audiences. Some fundamentals for building […]

Chapter 10 Managing News as a Conversation I think it’s pretty interesting how we’ve transitioned into this era where consumers no longer want their news to just be spoon-fed to them and then that’s it. People want to be a part of their news, they want to respond, provide rebuttals and criticism. Journalists now-a-days have […]

Chapter 4: Microblogging: Write Small, Think Big Microblogging is the newest and fastest way of getting information from one person to another and for breaking news. It’s incredibly efficient and is a great way to share links and tags to just about anything in real-time. “If blogging started as an online journal, think of microblogging […]

Chapter 1: We Are Web Workers Now I thought that the first section of the chapter that discussed RSS feeds was very interesting. I didn’t actually know that RSS stood for Really Simple Syndication, so that was interesting for me to learn.  The chapter holds a great deal of very useful information for those not […]

Chapter 6: Visual Storytelling With Photographs “Journalism without photographs is like writing without verbs.” I feel like that quote sums up quite well what chapter six is trying to get across, the idea that photography is now almost as much of a necessary skill to become a good journalist as writing is.  The two fields […]

Chapter 5: Going Mobile Chapter five summarizes well the importance of being a mobile journalist, keeping up with and being ahead of the times technologically.  With the introduction of the smart phones, reporters have been boosted to a new level of speed, efficiency, and connectivity. With the ability to snap photos, shoot video, and use […]