Aspiring journalists, hear hear! In a conversation segment I taped last year for CampusTweet.TV, Washington Post student life and culture reporter Jenna Johnson (Twitter handle: @wpjenna) offered insights into the changing media industry. As a journalist myself, I was excited with the opportunity to exchange words (face to face!) with a real-life reporter. We spoke…
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Our job as journalists consists of three basic things: asking questions, chasing sources to find answers to those questions, and reporting back to the public with answers. That’s if we’re lucky. What usually ends up happening is we spend our entire day on step two- playing the waiting game with interviewees- in some cases…
President Obama is currently speaking to a televised audience of millions in his State of the Union address. I am watching. But an even larger audience awaits on the web. What used to be a strictly televised event has transformed into a digital one, a conversation developed through multiple mediums. Ian Elsner (pictured above) no…
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