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Reporters and Correspondants

Posted by: | October 21, 2012 | No Comment |

In Mitchelle Stephens’ book “A History of News,” use of the term correspondents referred to those individuals that kept up a letter correspondence with editors of newspapers abroad. These so-called correspondents could be called upon to “forward reports of newsworthy occurrences in their bailiwick directly to the newspaper -a considerable more efficient system than waiting for the haphazard arrival of private letters.” According to the Oxford English […]

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News vacuum in the dark ages

Posted by: | October 2, 2012 | No Comment |

People have always had an innate desire to know what’s going on around them. As Professor Klein worded it in class, “News doesn’t like a vacuum.” When their need for information is not fulfilled, people become very nervous and frightened. Take the Dark Ages, for example. Literacy was much lower in this time period than […]

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The lucky 18

Posted by: | October 1, 2012 | No Comment |

It’s something everyone stares at for hours on end, absorbing as much newsworthy and useless content as possible until they have to go to the bathroom or actually do something important with their lives. When that moment comes, it’s not difficult to part ways with the television because you know that when you come back […]

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Radio: from print to the airwaves

Posted by: | September 18, 2012 | No Comment |

-Helena Okolicsanyi When the first broadcast of news hit the airwaves through the radio in 1920, something significant was happening. For the first time, news was brought directly to the home. No loner did you have to wait for the next day’s newspaper to learn about the world, all you had to do was simply […]

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Twitter: entertainment or hard news source?

Posted by: | November 15, 2011 | No Comment |

For everyone who has ever found themselves using TweetDeck, it is easy to draw parallels between sensationalism and Twitter. For example, when the report of a possible gunman at Virginia Tech hit the Twitterverse in August, sensationalist posts flooded newsfeeds throughout the duration of the day. This caused the incident to be the topic of […]

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Newspapers vs. The Internet

Posted by: | October 31, 2011 | No Comment |

Old news vs. New news. The decline of the newspaper industry is imminent. With a decline in circulation and an increasing number of online newspapers, the paper newspaper that we are accustomed to is on the path to extinction. If this video doesn’t foreshadow it’s demise then I don’t know what does.  

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Yes it was breaking news, but did it break any Twitter records?

Posted by: | September 5, 2011 | No Comment |

No longer are the days where one must wait for the morning paper to read breaking news. By the time you get to the paper the next day, the rest of the world has moved on. These days, news doesn’t spread any faster than it does on the social media website Twitter. Created by Jack […]

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Can YOU say it in 140 characters or less?

Posted by: | October 26, 2010 | No Comment |

Twitter was created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey. Since it was created 4 years ago, Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and has more than 100 million users. Twitter offers a social networking and microblogging service. Messages are called tweets: they are text-based posts of no more than 140 characters, that are displayed on a user’s […]

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Short attention spans = fast news

Posted by: | October 13, 2010 | No Comment |

You click on the TV at 5am, 5pm and 10pm to catch your local news broadcast; your laptop is out, books are in your lap, coffee on the table, dinner being cooked, you’re constantly distracted by something and of the hour of news coming out of your TV you catch five minutes. As our attention […]

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Technology: helping the spread of news (part 4)

Posted by: | November 19, 2009 | No Comment |

In our previous three blog entries, we discussed how technological advancements like the printing press, steam engine, telegraph, radio, and television (see beow) have helped spread information and the news to the public-at-large.   In our final entry, we will continue the discussion on how technology has helped shape the spread of information and the news. Source: http://www.wired.com Like the television set, the Internet (see picture below) was another revolutionary advancement in technology, in terms […]

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A picture is worth a thousand words: graphics in news

Posted by: | November 11, 2009 | No Comment |

Graphics play an integral part in the presentation of news, having a hand in every medium outside of news on the radio, though presentation is still important to that medium as well. Though there are some that simply wish to read line after line of text, more often than not people need some form of […]

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Technology: helping the spread of news (part 3)

Posted by: | November 5, 2009 | No Comment |

In our previous two blog entries, we discussed how technological advancements like the printing press, steam engine, telegraph, and radio (see below) have helped spread information and the news to the public-at-large.   In this entry, we will continue the discussion on how technology has helped shape the spread of information and the news. Source: Wikipedia While, the telegraph and radio were helpful in spreading information and news to the public-at-large,  the television […]

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