Posts tagged with crowdsourcing

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

Brad Kalbfeld visit

Brad Kalbfeld, former AP broadcast editor, visited class to speak about how technology has changed from the past to the present. He showed the typewriter he used and old school tape recorder he first used when he traveled with the Pope. He then showed the first laptop he used, which looked like a keyboard and […]

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Ch. 10 ‘Managing news as a conversation’

The socialization of news is clearly the right direction for journalism. This statement holds particularly true with the increasing developments in technology day-by-day. The only problem is, how do journalists continue to do their job while remaining as objective as possible? It’s a lot like what Jon DeNunzio spoke about when he visited our class. […]

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Ch.3 ‘Crowd-powered collaboration’

“The hunter-gatherer model of journalism is no long sufficient. Citizens can do their own hunting and gathering on the Internet. What they need is somebody to add value to that information by processing it–digesting it, organizing it, making it usable.” — Phil Meyer, author of “Precision Journalism” Briggs starts out the third chapter of “Journalism […]