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Chapter 11 introduces the tips for building a digital audience for news. “if journalists produce great stories, but no one reads them, how can news survive?” That quote reminds me of a Hollywood axiom “No audience.. no show.” No matter how good your story is, it still needs to be read in order to become [...]

Mark Stencel and Joel Sucherman from NPR, spoke to GMU students on March 1, 2012. They discussed a variety of changes that radio industry is facing as a result of technological developments. Here are some of the key points from their speech; 1. Radio isn’t going away, it’s going everywhere 2. Digital media has had [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]