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Soldier Transition Project Storyboard

March 10th, 2011 · No Comments · Tech Blog Posts

The Soldier Transition Project aims to tell the story of soldiers who seek out an education after having served their country in a time of war. We want to answer the questions: What is it like to go from a war zone to a college campus? What challenges do Soldiers face adjusting to life as […]

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Facebook Journalism On The Rise

March 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Tech Blog Posts

Facebook is not only a place to connect with friends, it is now more and more a way to connect with news. A recent post by Vadim Lavrusik on Mashable talks about this growing trend. Facebook journalism is on the rise because the social media site is becoming more public, Lavrusik says. The recent Egyptian revolution […]

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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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