Chapter 9: Data-Driven Journalism and Digitizing Your Life
Digital life is based upon a gratuitous amount of information and data; therefore, managing the data is the most critical part of digital life in journalism. Organized data not only helps journalists retrieve their memories from certain events via computer-assisted reporting, but also helps keeping in contact with colleagues and people of interest, and even […]
Dan Rather: ‘It’s My Job To Give People The Facts’
In the middle of the turmoil after the assassination of the president John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, millions sat in front of televisions to watch the announcement of the president’s death. There Dan Rather was in Dallas, Tx., suppressing all of his emotions to focus only on giving every little detail of the […]
Pursuit of Eyeballs
>In this article regarding the revolution of news media and the media convergence, Joel Achenbach lists several examples of how current media emphasizes on page views, and how some utilize tricks to enhance them. He uses a satirical voice to strike on the quantity-over-quality trend of the media, that consider heavily on page views, which […]
Media Pyramid
> Here is the first entry to the first blog of my own. The image above is called Media Pyramid, made as an assignment in a journalism class that I am taking this semester for my minor, based on this article (Poynter.org – What Is Your Media Pyramid?). The names or logos of news organizations […]
