Chapter 9 of Mark Briggs’ “Journalism Next” textbook deals with how to manage a highly-digitized life as a journalist. We all have an e-mail inbox that we, hopefully, check at least once daily.  Others are constantly on Twitter or Facebook.  Everywhere we look, we see somebody tapping on their cell phone, writing a text message.  […]

Chapter 4 of Mark Briggs’ “Journalism Next” textbook focused on microblogging, which is a way of writing very short blog posts to a wide audience. According to Briggs, Twitter started the trend of microblogging with a post limit of 140 characters or less.  However, he said that microblogging can be traced back to instant message […]

Chapter 2 of Mark Briggs’ “Journalism Next” textbook focused on advanced blogging techniques. Briggs claimed that a blog has three defining characteristics: a reverse-chronological story update order, posts with a headline and a body, and a space reserved for reader comments.  Blogging was also explained in a way that it fits the roots of immediacy […]

Chapter 1 of Mark Briggs’ “Journalism Next” textbook focuses on the fundamentals of computers and the internet that is required to be a successful journalist. Briggs made it clear that the internet and the World Wide Web are two different things.  He claims that the internet is the network of unified computers worldwide, while the […]