April 2012
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Morning News Anchor with Big Online Buzz
I spoke with Staci Spanos who is a morning news anchor at WJXT in Jacksonville, Florida. I wanted to speak to someone who is in my field of interest, reporting and anchoring, but with a social media twist. She is well known in Jacksonville for her high social media presence. Spanos made the point that being a morning anchor isn’t just about television anymore…that the business is truly evolving...
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Can you call it a foreign bureau when there is one... →
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You can, but should you? CJR looks at the dwindling presence of foreign reporters and how they are represented by their news organizations.
Olivia Damavandi: City of Malibu Media Information...
I (virtually) met Olivia Damavandi, the City of Malibu Media Information Officer, through my grandfather this semester. Because she came from a similar background (she got her Masters from Columbia in broadcast journalism, but decided she wanted to venture into the world of public/media relations instead), he figured she would be someone who could give me great advice during my job...
Colliding of two passions: Chi Omega and Writing
Whitney Heckathorne is the Director of Communications for Chi Omega. She gets the fun job of telling Chi Omega’s story. She does this through a variety of communication avenues, including their national magazine, social media networks, and working with the media to “show off the Sisterhood to the world” as she put it.
I interviewed Heckathorne about her social media usage, both at work and in her...
Keeping Up with Lisa Grimm
It’s the biggest mall in America. It boasts a whapping 400 stores, 1,200 employees and over 400 annual events. It welcomes 30 to 40 millions guests through its doors each year. Plus, it’s got a theme-park at its heart, that’s pretty cool. It’s a powerful brand with an international reputation. It’s got one really useful tool spreading its brand into social. Her name is Lisa Grimm.
She’s Mall...
Michael Cupo
I spoke to Michael Cupo the Social Media Director for ESPN. He emphasized the importance of being social media literate and adapting to the new wave of journalism while still using the same old fashioned journalism skills that have always served our industry well.
The biggest take away I got from him was to try everything. Try new platforms; test new links; test new copy; etc. Do not be afraid to...
Up the Ladder - Mike Pease
I spoke with Mike Pease about his life. I felt it was important to get a full background of his time in the business. Pease is an Assignment Editor at WNDU Newscenter 16 in South Bend, IN.
Mike noticed a definite change of how the web is used in the newsroom over the last two decades. He said that even though the web is still relatively new, it holds high importance. Before, people used to watch...
"Respectfully Going Rogue" with Robert Hernandez
He traveled to Latin America, worked for some big name papers and, perhaps most impressively, understands JavaScript. I met Robert Hernandez, now an Associate Professor at USC Annenberg, at #wjchat – live edition! – in Boston at the ONA conference last year. He seemed like a positive, outgoing guy, so I skyped him a call – that’s a new phrase, trademarked! – and had a chat about how he got to...
Professional Profile -- Jim Berger
This week, I met with Jim Berger, founder and CEO of High Noon Entertainment, and had the chance to spend three days learning from him about the reality television industry. Jim graduated from Mizzou in 1978. After graduation, he worked at Denver NBC affiliate KUSA-TV first as a cameraman and later, head of local programming and production. He founded High Noon in Denver more than 15 years ago and...
A conversation with a top soccer journo
This might not mean a lot to many of you, but I had a really cool opportunity to talk to a guy who covers the world’s game from Europe.
Greg Seltzer is originally from St. Louis, spent two years at Mizzou (he left in 1989 without finishing his degree because of economic struggles) and spent several years outside the industry entirely before breaking into an entry-level position at a soccer...
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News on the Net? More Like Awesome!
I find it weird that there are any people in the entire universe who do not use the inter-webs, but studies show that one in five US adults opt out of the internet. Could this be an issue for journalism? How are we supposed to get the word out there when 20% of people aren’t even paying attention? Click here for more information.
The Wall Street Journal went ahead and pursued the thoughts...
Facebook Privacy Update Lets You Download More... →
Facebook users are now able to download more of their Facebook account history. It’s through the Download Your Information feature and includes info like friend requests made and Internet protocol addresses from which you accessed the site. It could be a response to European lawmakers’ pressures… and a good reminder that anything you’ve done on Facebook is out there...
Foxconn Video Contradicts "This American Life"... →
NPR’s Rob Schmitz was only the second journalist to gain access to the Apple Foxconn factory. The exclusive video showing how an iPad is made comes after the retraction of a “This American Life” story about working conditions inside the plant. Schmitz writes, “There’s a main drag lined on both sides with fast-food restaurants, banks, cafes. grocery stores, a wedding...
Instagram Hits 40 Million Users →
The app that’s not even two years old hit its forty millionth user this week, thanks to its launch for Android and the media coverage of Facebook’s buyout. The number of users shot from 30 million to 40 million since the Android launch— over 1 million a day. It shows that Android users can’t be ignored by app developers anymore.
Why is Instagram Worth One Billion to Facebook? →
Facebook shelled out one billion dollars for Instagram on Monday… but why? Some say Facebook is scared. It’s always been the largest photo sharing service, but it’s had trouble translating that popularity to mobile devices.
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Wikipedia: Goodbye Google Maps, Hello Open Street... →
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Wikipedia joins a growing list of high profile organizations leaving Google Maps and moving to the open source Open Street Maps. The move comes after Google announced in March that they would begin charging Web sites that receive more than 25,000 requests per month for use of their maps.
Via Wikipedia:
Previous versions of our application used Google Maps for the...
Macs get a virus →
After it was all said and done, more than 600,000 Macs were compromised this week by a virus. This surprised many people, since Macs are less prone to viruses than PCs. There is a fix now if you’re concerned about your computer.
Pinterest is catching on →
A new study this week shows Pinterest is now the third most visited website in the U.S. That’s after many people hadn’t even heard of it just 6 months ago. That’s a pretty fast moving trend!
Jared Launius News From the 'Net
Here’s some notable items from news media this week.
Mike Wallace, longtime 60 Minutes personality, died Sunday. Mashable did a pretty cool round-up of tweets about the reporting icon: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/business/media/the-return-of-the-newspaper-barons.html?_r=1&ref=media
SOPA/PIPA were harpooned back in January, but Mashable wonders if CISPA could be...
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Google looks to the future...by blocking your...
Have you seen the new Google glasses? Kind of a cool idea, but I’m wondering how you see the oncoming car with a map in the middle of your vision…watch the video! The glasses have some pretty cool features, though. You can look outside and it’ll give you information about what you’re seeing (like the temperature). Pretty nifty. It will be interesting to see where they go...
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BuzzFeed faces storm of criticism →
BuzzFeed is getting a storm of criticism this week after it posted some questionable pictures and claimed they were from the tornadoes that Dallas/Ft. Worth.
Three of their pictures may have either been photo shopped or from other disasters. They took down the pictures from their gallery on the Texas storms and posted a correction on the page. But, the error shows that the site is facing higher...
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Instagram Engineering: Keeping Instagram up with... →
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On Tuesday we launched Instagram for Android, and it’s had a fantastic response so far. The last few weeks (on the infrastructure side) have been all about capacity planning and preparation to get everything in place, but on launch day itself the challenge is to find problems quickly, get to the…
Did you Android users join? I know we’ve talked a lot about...
NBC Admits Fault in Zimmerman Tape Editing;... →
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From Poynter: Journalists Learn What Works and... →
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The Story Behind How Google Hangouts Came to be →
Creeping hardcore, or a real life Marauder's Map?
The “Girls Around Me” app is getting some serious heat this week as people accuse it of being stalker-ish. The app, which used Facebook and Foursquare “check-ins” to synthesize - in map form- where people around you were, has basically been discontinued as Foursquare stopped supporting it with information about people’s whereabouts.
Here’s a link to an update...
