Online Journalism

Former George Mason University Communications major B.J. Koubaroulis spoke to our class today about video techniques and how video can really enhance the story you are trying to tell. Visit his personal Twitter account here and check out his blog here. Koubaroulis reccommends starting out small after you graduate and working in a place that […]

Mark Potts, journalist and digital pioneer, spoke to our class today. He helped create the Washington Post website, served as editor for various news websites and has worked in the media field for nearly 20 years. Check out his blog Recovering Journalist. Potts showed us a variety of different websites that all present unique ways of telling stories: […]

Kevin Anderson, a digital strategist and freelance journalist, spoke to our class today via Skype. He has worked for BBC, Al Jazeera English and the Guardian. Check out his personal Twitter account , his Muckrack account, and some of his work with Al Jazeera English here. When asked what tools are needed for a journalism skill set […]

Steve Buttry Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement for TBD, joined our class today for a presentation on cross-platform journalism and the different tools and techniques that are applied to many articles and stories today. Check out his Bio, personal Twitter account, and blog, The Buttry Diary, here. Professor Klein noted that Buttry understands the social […]

Jim Iovino, Managing Editor of the website NBC Washington, spoke to our class today about different types of cross-platform journalism. Iovino began his career in print journalism, but soon switched to online journalism due to the downsizing of newspapers and other print content. Most of the news content on the NBC Washington wesbite is original, however some stories […]

Just wanted to link to the Mindmeister outline our group (Raffi Paul, Lexie Ramage and myself) created for our Football Multimedia Project. Mindmeister is a pretty cool tool for mapping and brainstorming to help you get started with any type of planning that you may need to do. It’s basically like a virtual ‘spider web’, […]

The Microsoft Word 2007 Intermediate course offered by George Mason University covers a variety of user topics such as: inserting dates inserting symbols adding Quick Parts (allows you to store a heading, title, certain piece of info, etc. and allows you to open it on various blank documents) using AutoFormat (formats a document as your type […]

Zotero is a free citation management program that was originally created here at George Mason University in the Center for History and New Media. The program allows you to “collect, organize, cite and share” your resources for various research projects and note taking. Many college students may find this program useful as it allows you […]

Journalist and former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, along with political news correspondent Tucker Carlson, appeared in a C-SPAN video conference with George Mason University. Both guests answered questions from students ranging from the current situation in Egypt to their careers in the media. Rather stressed the importance of determination in young journalists and the […]

Jon DeNunzio, User Engagement Editor at The Washington Post, visited our class for a lecture on how social media is impacting journalism today and how we can use it to our advantage. DeNunzio gave us a list of a few social media website worth looking into: BlackBirdPie Intersect UMapper Buzzfeed StartUpLi.st AllOurIdeas Twiigs He also […]