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Reporting

Marketing the News to a “Typical” American

July 22, 2009

I spent a little more time thinking about Monday’s post: “Storytelling and Serious News Stories“.  I decided that the best way to illustrate my ideas would be to provide an example.  I thought about rewriting an existing story but came up with a new idea, inspired by the front page of Nytimes.com.
Maybe the best way [...]

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Storytelling and Serious News Stories

July 20, 2009

Take a moment to consider the Harry Potter series.  Before Harry Potter, young people rarely became excited about books.  Can you remember the last time one book made such an impact on an international level?
(Pictured at left: Media is cool again, by Noël Zia Lee)
Everyone, young and old, had to read Harry Potter, and everyone [...]

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Speculation v. Sources in Reporting Michael Jackson’s Death

June 26, 2009

At around 5:30 PM yesterday, I noticed news of Michael Jackson’s cardiac arrest on Twitter and Facebook. At around 6 PM, some people claimed that he had died. What?! I performed a Google search to find an update. The website that had first reported his death, celebrity gossip site TMZ, was so heavily trafficked that [...]

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Doom and Gloom in the Newsroom

June 12, 2009

When I start writing these posts, I usually don’t have a clear-cut idea of what I want to say. More often than not, I begin writing because I want to explore an idea or because another writer’s words made me stop and think.
Today, I am writing simply because I stumbled upon Journalism Is Dead, “a [...]

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