Anita McBride, former chief of staff for first lady Laura Bush, participated in a C-SPAN distance learning video conference on April 14. McBride spoke about her extensive knowledge on many first ladies of American history and took questions from Steve Scully, the political editor for the C-SPAN networks, George Mason University, University of Denver and […]
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Anita McBride joins comm 361…for a C-SPAN conference
April 20th, 2011 — Blog Item
Mark Stencel
April 12th, 2011 — Blog Item
Mark Stencel came to speak to my class: Doesn’t use the term new media because he’s been working with it for 16 years Gave us an intro on NPR. Showed us his blog NPR’s national audience on the radio is growing when may other outlets are losing theirs. They’re doing a lot of experimenting with […]
Teaching Online Journalism: ‘a great flash infographic’
April 6th, 2011 — Blog Item
This post was about infographics. Currently, I am creating one for my Pop Culture Journalism class with a partner from an AVT class. This post was interesting because it showed what a good infographic looks like. I actually thought the infographic that was posted was a little too busy. But it was visually appealing. Here’s […]
Zombie Journalism: ‘Interacting with the audience as a news brand’
March 31st, 2011 — Blog Item
Using social media to talk to an audience is what this blog post was all about. Mandy Jenkins had some interesting tips. Here are my thoughts on them: Responding — I know you’re always supposed to respond. I hadn’t really thought about direct messaging someone other than getting their contact information. Although this is kind […]
Steve Buttry
March 22nd, 2011 — Blog Item
Visual storytelling was the focus of Steve Buttry‘s talk. He shared with us his blog, The Buttry Diary. He said he’d use some examples from his blog post from the previous time he talked to Klein’s class. He said he’d also use some new examples. He started with examples using maps as a gateway for […]