After reading Mark Briggs’s ninth chapter of “Journalism Next,” I realized that all of the emphasis my parents and professors have put on time management will actually benefit my future career as a journalist. Who’d of thunk, right? Time management is essential to journalism, especially now that journalism is digital. We have e-mail, e-invites, calendars, […]
Painting a story with your words is something that journalists learn how to do perfectly. But sometimes words just aren’t enough for the reader. Videos can take a story to the next level — letting the reader watch the story unfold is the perfect way to get them reading. Mark Briggs’s example in his eighth […]
Since journalism has taken a liking toward the Internet, as well as mobile platforms, you can bet that is where our audience is going to be. People reading the morning paper with their coffee and a bagel are far and distant memories that will soon be long-lost; but that doesn’t mean what they are reading […]
News used to be a process where audiences just consumed the news from varying media sources. Well, not anymore. In Mark Briggs’s tenth chapter of “Journalism Next,” Briggs discusses how news is becoming more conversational as media becomes more social.
Words have the ability to paint beautiful mental pictures for the reader; but what’s better than a mental picture?
In Mark Briggs’ fifth chapter of “Journalism Next,” Briggs discusses how mobile appears to be the future of journalism. People are having most – if not all of their content – going directly to their smartphones, so journalists need to keep up with the audience’s mobility by entering the world of mobile journalism.
After reading Mark Briggs’s fourth chapter of “Journalism Next,” which discusses how microblogging, a more concise form of blogging that is like Instant Messaging to the masses, is a pertinent form of social media because it makes crowdsourcing easier and it is a faster way to receive and publish news.
In Mark Briggs’ third chapter of “Journalism Next,” he explains the power behind crowd-sourcing, open-source reporting and pro-am journalism. All three of these methods use the eyes, ears and pens of the general public in order to craft stories.
The second chapter of Mark Briggs’s guide to digital journalism delves into the wonders of the blog.
Mark Briggs’ Chapter 1 of “Journalism Next” details the importance of learning the basics behind digital content. To be a journalist in this new digital era, we cannot depend on others to put our content up on the Web. We need to have a basic understanding of how to do these things ourselves, so that […]
Mark Briggs, the author of “Journalism 2.0,” makes a a good point in the introduction of his new journalism guide for the journalism student, “Journalism Next.” College-aged students are the ones with a say of how journalism will be in the future. We are the ones whose ideas are considered valuable in the new job […]
