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Skillset4-Comm361 – making a free slideshow

I attended a Photoshop CS5.5 IV workshop taught by Anthony R. The workshop took place on George Mason campus in Johnson Center The workshop was amazing. I had some basic knowledge of Photoshop, but i never realized the degree to which it allows you to manipulate any given image. Anthony taught us how to add [...]

Chapter 6 of Journalism Next focuses on visual story telling. “Journalism without photographs is like writing without verbs” Briggs says. Digital cameras are a lot easier to use than the traditional film ones. There is no longer an excuse not to be familiar with the basics of composition and how to operate a camera. The [...]

On Feb. 21, 2012 Mark Potts spoke to our class about drastic changes that are taking place in journalism. Throughout his presentation he has made a several important points: 1. Since the invention of internet news has become a plentiful commodity. 2. Only unique products can be successful. 3. Newspapers are no longer the sole [...]

I am getting ready to graduate from George Mason University in May of this year. I am a Communication major with concentration in PR and a journalism minor. I will be pursuing my masters in Marketing at either George Washington or Georgetown University starting this fall. I don’t have a blog, but I am heavily [...]

In Chapter 5 of Journalism Next which is titled “Going Mobile”, Briggs addresses the importance of the technological developments and how they have revolutionized the way the news are reported. He focuses on the smart phones in particular. Smart phones features such as digital and video cameras have now replaced photographers and camera crew, and [...]

Journalists in 1982 used wire speak “twitter lingo” because they were charged per character. Black and white pictures used to take 15 minutes to transmit, color pictures used to take 45 minutes. First laptop had 4 lines in the display. However, it did not have any paper. It came with acoustical cups, they would plug [...]

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Chapter 4 addressed the concept of micro-blogging. I enjoyed reading it because I spend significant amount of time on twitter, which made it easier for me to relate to the material. Twitter is an amazing tool that attracted millions of users worldwide due to its simplicity. For many it became a #1 news source, for others [...]