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‘JournalismNext’ Chapter 10 Summary

March 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Journalism Next by Mark Briggs

News is a conversation now, not a lecture, and there is no going back, says Mark Briggs in Chapter 10. Briggs acknowledges that some journalists would prefer a lecture style of news, but says that journalism is made better by audience participation. The key now is for journalists to learn to “manage, and leverage, that […]

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Crowdsourcing in Libya Aids Traditional Media

February 27th, 2011 · No Comments · Tech Blog Posts

  Videos, pictures and news of the uprising in Libya are making it out of the country, but the images are not all coming from traditional media. A post in Mashable by Radhika Marya tells of how crowdsourcing is providing traditional outlets, like CNN, with some of their coverage of the Libyan uprising. I have […]

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