Archive for October, 2008
Discussion of the Week
So, it was only a matter of time.
“The Christian Science Monitor said Tuesday it will become the first national newspaper to drop its daily print edition and focus on publishing online, succumbing to the financial pressure squeezing its industry harder than ever.”
Read the full story here and weigh in with your thoughts on the comments [...]
Tonight’s Assignment
Multimediaites –
Joining our Twitter group tonight will be my Politics, Journalism and the Web class as well as Scott Brodeur’s Writing for the Web class. If you want to connect with Scott’s students, their blog urls are on the side of his class blog.
Here’s the assignment for tonight:
* Watch the debate.
* Take a step back [...]
Steve Jobs, I-Report and The Future of Citizen Journalism
Hi Multimediaites:
In case you missed it, a false report about Steve Jobs suffering a heart attack Friday made it onto CNN’s IReport (CNN’s citizen journalism vehicle), leading to a sharp drop in Apple stock. Some are characterizing what occured as a downside to citizen journalism, while others have been a bit more [...]
Tonight’s Debate Assignment
Hi multimediaites –
Don’t forget that you’re twittering tonight’s vice-presidential debate under #umassvp. Remember, I want at least five (5) twitter entries. As some of you found out for the last assignment, you can get caught up in the conversation and forget about the number of entries — that’s fine and I hope that’s how many [...]
