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Journalism Today – Part 1
COM 135 Introduction to Journalism

“The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.”
~David Brinkley

Today’s Concepts – Journalism Today Part 1
Some Stats
Web 2.0
What is convergence?
Three Crucial Questions Facing the News Business

Some Stats…
From p. 14 of your Textbook
Funny Link to The Onion’s Spoofs On News Industry

Some Stats…
From p. 14 of your Textbook

Web 2.0 = The Read/Write Web
A fully interactive and collaborative medium with social networking, interactive games, and user-created content like wikis, blogs and podcasts.

Web 2.0: The Machine Is Us/ing Us by Dr. Michael Wesch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g&feature=channel_page

What Is Convergence?
Combining a variety of media (text, images, audio, video) to cover a story.
Textbook definition p. 322
Often interchangeable with “multimedia”
The Seattle Times: Guitar Lessons at the Central Area Senior Center
Newsroom Convergence: Tampa Bay Online
Star Tribune: Minnesota Olympic Athlete Profiles
Flickr: Gwen Vanhee

ConvergenceTools
Multimedia Journalism:
Producing news content for multiple platforms; enriched with text, photos, video, audio and interactive graphics
Flickr: Gwen Vanhee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdJlyh76dEc
Flickr: Gwen Vanhee

Three Crucial Questions Facing the News Business
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