Here are some of the most important tips Mark Potts gave us when visiting our Communication 361 class: In the last year or two, more people have begun to get their news from online instead of from a newspaper. Only unique news products can be successful. You must find a way to separate yourself from […]

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I was born in 1990, so I find this article on the 90s very humorous.

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In chapter five of Mark Briggs’ Journalism Next book, he talks about how cell phones and mobile devices can play a large role in journalism. Not only can they capture pictures and videos, but mobile devices are able to quickly post the information to different social media outlets and make news. Journalists can now use […]

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Steve Myers writes about a new social media tool called “Seriously Rapid Source Review” (SRSR) which tries to filter out important, legitimate tweets. The software creators came up with 741 words that could likely be used in a newsworthy tweet and made it easy to search with those words. There is a formula in place […]

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John Paton worked in the “Golden Era of journalism” and explains how newspapers and their executives have changed. He goes on to say that he has to learn so many new things this day in age with new technologies, social media and new people in the business. The article describes how the Internet is taking […]

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