Speaking of blogs

Last night on HBO, Costas Now held a roundtable discussion on, coincidentally enough, the impact of the internet on how sports in particular is covered. The roundtable featured Will Leitch, the editor at Deadspin.com, Buzz Bissinger, an acclaimed sportswriter who has written books such as Friday Night Lights, and Braylon Edwards, a wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns.

These links are from Awful Announcing, a blog that happens to be one which I check on a daily basis. The first is a package that was put together about the blogosphere in sports (featuring Leitch, the Washington Post's Michael Wilbon and Michael Schur, a writer for The Office who blogs under the name Ken Tremendous at FireJoeMorgan.com), and the second is the roundtable itself. Fair warning: The second link contains some VERY coarse language, so be aware of that before you watch.

http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2008/04/costas-intro-on-internet-media-segment.html

http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2008/04/internet-media-segment.html

Citizen Journalism

We discussed citizen journalism last class. Many said it was the demise of investigative journalism that would reveal stories like Walter Reed. A similar story is now being reported out of Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. A concerned father(wow, did I call that one) made a video and put it on Youtube. Becasue of his action, this story is now being reported across the country. Happy Watching! Anna


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4P-camUjjk

Final Papers

This is a 1,200-word (1,150 minimum, 1,250 maximum) critical analysis that is meant to incorporate your own thoughts as well as an appropriate number of related articles necessary to support your argument. Your paper should be written in traditional academic narrative form, with an introduction outlining your goals and your argument and a summary wrapping up your conclusions.

This is not a research paper, but other sources should be referenced if appropriate. I'm looking for your own original insights and analysis.

Papers must be double-spaced, with your name, date and word count at the top.

Each spelling & factual error will result in the loss of 5 points each. Appropriate deductions will be taken for grammatical errors.

Late assignments will not be accepted for the final paper. Papers may be emailed or handed in at the beginning of class on May 12. Any paper that is not turned in by 7 p.m. on May 12 will receive an automatic F.

TOPICS

In terms of writing and reporting news, the Web demands the same principles of traditional news writing be followed – accuracy, clarity, etc – but it also requires much more. More writing, more deadlines, more interaction with readers, more use of multiple media forms (i.e., shooting video, taking photographs, recording audio). You should choose one of the following statements around which to write your final paper:

The evolution of online journalism as a news medium has adversely affected the professional role of a journalist.

The evolution of online journalism as a news medium has increased and expanded the opportunities of a professional journalist to tell a story.

As new media technologies have altered the perception of who can be a journalist, the journalism industry has benefited.

As new media technologies have altered the perception of who can be a journalist, the journalism industry has suffered.

This is not a research paper, nor should it simply be an essay. This is a critical analysis in which you should refer to as many sources as necessary to adequately support your argument. Those sources could include information from the textbook, news articles and/or industry journal articles (such as AJR, CJR, etc). To write a solid analysis, you probably should cite at least 4-5 articles, polls or pieces of research previously done that support your argument. You do not need to create a bibliography, but any information that you reference from another source should be cited as a footnote.

Washington Post Story: Saudi Activist Blogger Freed After 4 Months in Jail Without Charge

Hi Everyone,

Here's a story from today's paper I thought someone might find interesting and put some perspective on our recent blogging discussions in class.

story boards

When we were assigned to create a storyboard for our Websites, I searched online for examples to give me some structure to work with. Here are a few of the links I found that might come in handy for you as you're building your site:

http://www.amacord.com/services/storybrd.html
University of Calgary - generic Website storyboard.
Cool tutorial on digital storyboarding/telling from the Knight Center for Digital Media at UC-Berkeley.
Template from Wellesley.

I've misplaced the link to the one I used...it was really good so as soon as I can locate it I'll post it.