Entries from March 2010 ↓

Chapter 8 of Mark Briggs’ “Journalism Next” textbook discusses the importance of using video in news stories. Briggs compares two video journalists: David Pogue of The New York Times, as well as Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal.  Briggs shows that Pogue’s video stories are much more polished than Mossberg’s, mainly because his recordings […]

Chapter 3 of Mark Briggs’ “Journalism Next” textbook discusses how reporters can utilize their readers to gain the best story possible, also known as crowd-powered collaboration. Briggs described three new reporting methods in the chapter:

Bob Schieffer, “Face the Nation” moderator and Chief Washington Correspondent for CBS News, spoke about recent changes in the news industry and his career to college students on March 3, 2010 on C-SPAN 3. Layoffs at ABC News sparked the conversation about the direction of the news industry.  Schieffer sourced the downsizing of people needed […]

Chapter 11 of Mark Briggs’ “Journalism Next” textbook tells about the changes that news organizations face today in regard to the return that they will receive on a story or video content. This directly involves to ratings for TV stations, and link visibility online. Briggs claims that newspapers measure everything they do.  He uses The […]

Chapter 10 of Mark Briggs’ “Journalism Next” textbook discusses the changes that journalists face with the onslaught of social media networks and other online communities in regard to their news reporting. Instead of just reporting the news to a mass audience via television in a lecture style, Briggs says that journalists now have to become […]