Posts Tagged ‘ journalism ’

Social Media and Journalism

April 6, 2011
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Social Media Landscape, Flickr, Fred Cavazza

Old Media institutions are clinging to the idea of objective reporting, an ideal that never existed. The idea goes like this: news is reported in a purely factual matter, presented fairly, with balance, and without slant or bias of any sort. Reporters are completely unbiased individuals, devoid of opinion, paragons of even-handedness. 1) This has never, in all of history, been the case. Ever. Anyone who says it has been is either delusional or lying. 2) Even if it had been, folks, that ship has sailed. Have you met Fox News?

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Multimedia & Social Media: A Bulleted List of Cool Stuff

March 27, 2011
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Umapper

Last night, we made Salmon Soop, a marvelous concoction of salmon and rice with a buttery milk broth that is guaranteed to dazzle your taste buds, cure all that ails you, and put you into a solid cold coma. As a result, I was far too comatose to write an actual blog post. Instead, I offer a sexy bullet point list of cool multimedia toys, a link to a neat article about Facebook fan pages, and the Carnival of Journalism, to be published now.

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Column: Avast! Thar Be Books Ahead!

February 15, 2011
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Ah, good old Internet piracy. I remember once bragging to a friend -- with great pride, mind you -- that I didn't have a single piece of legal software on my computer, up to and including the OS. Those were the days, folks. Sailing the high seas of the Internet, bringing your torrent client of choice along side a likely-looking target, unleashing a healthy barrage of P2P sharing, and plundering the Man for all his over-priced, DRMed booty. Yarrr!

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Journalism: Three Things I Learned from Edna Buchanan & her book, "The Corpse Had a Familiar Face"

May 8, 2010
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We’ve been reading Edna Buchanan’s book, The Corpse Had a Familiar Face, for my journalism class. Edna Buchanan was a crime reporter for the Miami Herald for twenty years, covering the crime beat for that paper. This book is an autobiography, detailing how she came to be a writer, and how she got into journalism. It was a really good book, and if you’re into crime stories, you should check it out. Buchanan covered something like 5,000 murders in her time at the Miami Herald, along with tons of other crimes, and she writes about some of the more...

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News Reporting & Writing: Putting the Art in Culinary Arts

April 22, 2010
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Linn-Benton Community College’s cafeteria starts getting ready for lunch every day at 6:30am. That’s when the food and supply deliveries start showing up, four days a week. The hustle is on to get ready for the day’s lunch, and teach LBCC’s Culinary Arts students how to work magic in a commercial kitchen. Few restaurant customers realize the amount of work that goes on behind the scenes, what goes into the beautiful plate of food that is delivered to them after only a short wait. Perhaps they’re envisioning a energetic Emeril Legasse back there in the kitchen, tossing spices around...

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