November 2010
8 posts
Newsweek and Daily Beast
In a recent New York Times article, David Carr comments on the combining of Newsweek and the Daily Beast, and says the two properties that have almost nothing in common other than the fact that they both lose lots of money. I found it amusing, but more importantly an interesting nuptial for a online-only news site.
Midterm Elections
Though I mostly find myself getting news from print on most occasions (the Expo, JandC), there is only so much you can get out of one newspaper. So I browse the internet, and my favorite midterm election site ended up being CNN. But as the member of a very conservative household I always tend to read from both sides and from there draw upon my own conclusions. This year CNN had frequent updates,...
Headcount
One way I have been keeping up with the Midterm Elections is through Headcount. They register voters at concerts and make civic participation part of the live music experience. Bands have helped Headcount register over 160,000 voters by welcoming them at their concerts, pointing to their tables from stage and appearing in public service announcement campaigns.
This is how I registered to vote at...
Thoughts on VJ2
My second VJ piece went a lot smoother- I decided to use a different camera, with no tape so uploading and importing went 100% smoother than with the first piece (in Hicks). Also, I did a voice over - which I ended up loving; one reason being the fact that you just get to hear yourself talk, and another because it made my piece flow so much better than the Purdue Rifle and Pistol Club piece.
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October 2010
14 posts
Newspaper: falling circulation - though the rate...
Figures released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations showed that overall weekday circulation at 635 newspapers declined 5 percent from circulation in the same six months last year. The decline last year was at more than twice that rate, which is good ‘news’ for now!
And! actually the newspaper reporting the highest weekday circulation was The Wall Street Journal at just over 2...
This just in
I was checking my Facebook, and C-SPAN just posted a video on social media used in political campaigns. Since we talk about C-SPAN and social media utilization practically everyday, I figured this would be interesting for all.
They talk about the impact of media on the campaign,and speakers include Frank Sesno, director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at GWU and former CNN Washington...
Likewise
]]> Witch! Marxist! The taunts flew in Christine O’Donnell’s debate with Chris Coons in the Delaware Senate race. Will her down-to-earth showing get her back in the game? Samuel P. Jacobs reports for Group 2’s online-only news site The Daily Beast.
The debate article also includes two C-SPAN videos with interviews of O’Donnell, very interesting.
Social Media and Christine O' Donnell
Krystal Ball, a Democratic Congressional candidate from Virginia, has blamed her opponent, Republican Rob Wittman, for posting scandalous photos of her on a Republican blog last week. Ball said the photos were taken when she was just out of college and had not considered entering politics.
But alas, that is one thing we must always worry about.
It is our requirement, with nothing being private...
Dee Dee Myers
In response to Maura’s post on the White House Gaggle - Dee Dee Myers holds the distinction of being the first woman to serve as White House Press Secretary from January 20, 1993 to December 22, 1994 during Clinton’s term as President.
WatchWith two cousins as active members in the U.S. military, the Snyder-Phelps case is one I hold dear to my heart. If either of them were killed during action, the least you would expect would be an honorable funeral service, regardless of either’s sexuality.
This video is a discussion centered on First Amendment rights and public protests at military funerals between lawyers and nine...
Hey- Group 2! A shift in the media world, from...
Howard Kurtz, a three-decade veteran of The Washington Post who came to embody insider Washington media reporting with his weekly column and CNN television show, is leaving The Post for Tina Brown’s news and commentary Web site, The Daily Beast- a online- only news site we have decided (I believe) to cover for our group project.
You can read Kurtz’s own article here or the New York...
Creating Video Footage
This project was fun, until the final steps - importing and editing. I definitely enjoyed being behind the camera, but wish that editing was given more coverage in class.
Having to use Windows Live Movie Maker was very amateurish and did not help me meet my standards I set for myself. There is no voice over option, so no narration (in Windows 7). The video quality also diminished when...
The Social Network That Gets Down to Business
While all forms of social media are different, the NyTimes posted this article, praising the networking tool LinkedIn. LinkedIn is actually more than just a place for job seekers to post a résumé and definitely more than just a place for users to post status updates and pictures of their weekend shenanigans. Some people like Ms. Wiseberg (in the NyTimes article) has realized the importance of...
Case Study: Group 2, online-only news sites
I have been browsing through some of the online-only news sites that my group is covering for our case studies at the end of the semester and am here to tell you what I am finding interesting in these online news sites.
Obviously, we have chosen to cover TBD but also have been looking at other sites to see how they differ in terms of style, content, presentation, commenting or viewer replies.
We...
DLC computers
For anyone looking to use the DLC camcorders or any equipment and need to upload the miniDV to the computers- you can reserve computers at the DLC’s site, by choosing the software you need to use from a drop down box!
September 2010
7 posts
Along the lines of Yuri Victor
As Yuri talked about getting feeds from hundreds of sources at his desktop everyday, I also have a similar way of getting my news and other of-interest journalistic pieces.
One of those ways is by getting breaking news from the Washington Post sent straight to my email as it is being reported. Just a few moments ago, I received an email from the Post informing the public that former President...
Where activists were once defined by their causes,...
This is in response to the article posted on Maura’s blog, Gladwell’s argument that social media is no revolution.
Of course it is a revolution. The ways that one person can reach the masses is incredible, due to social media, specifically Facebook, Twitter and other forms of media that are used now to not just send a message but to notify whoever will read what they are writing.
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WatchLast week my brother became a victim to cyber-crime. This has been a reoccurring issue now for some time, but when it happens to your own family its’ importance really stands forward.
In this C-SPAN clip, Purdue University Professor Gene Spafford talked by remote video from Purdue University about cybersecurity and explained how the current Internet is a conduit for all types of ...
Shirley Sherrod
While it is completely obvious in the video posted on Andrew Breitbart’s blog that Shirley Sherrod meant to harm by telling the white farmer to find help from “one of his own kind”, it truly shows the importance of watching your words while in the public’s view and in an industry such as the U. S. Department of Agriculture. On the other hand it shows how direct quotations...
University bans Facebook, Twitter for one week
WHAT!!!
While catching up on the readings from the weekend on Shirley Sherrod, I found an interesting piece on MSNBC’s ‘Technolog’. Not only do I think the utilization of Facebook and Twitter is a private matter (i.e. you Tweet or you don’t Tweet, no one tells you can or cannot Tweet.) But according to this article, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology has...
Hotseat or not to Hotseat
Hotseat is great! I am actually in Chuck Calahan’s class, CDFS 255, and we use Hotseat in every class.
One note though- there are around 200 people in the class. I think that if the problem we are facing in Journalism, New Media and Convergence isn’t something we can get over in class by ourselves, we are not the greatest of communicators.
For instance, Calahan uses Hotseat because...
C-SPAN Video: A Long Strange Trip; Sept. 17, 2002
Many people still to this day do not know who the Grateful Dead is or what they have done for the world of music. The band is most commonly known for its live performances of long musical improvisation, and ultimately started what is now known as the jam scene. Founded in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay area, the Grateful Dead have earned some of the most dedicated fans that traveled from show to...
August 2010
2 posts
What is convergence?
Convergence: because of the economy and the way the web changes, print and video have converged. Combining efforts to merge resources and create stories together on the web describes what media convergence is.
In Response to Dan Gillmor
From the first day I started training at the Exponent, I sometimes find myself lost in the thoughts I have regarding being an actual journalist. It has been a heated debate for a long time now, and simply the only reason Jamal and others in his situation can’t be labeled “journalists” is because they haven’t had any reporters’ training, like I have, or any other...
