Using Twitter to cover sporting events
As a reporter in this day and age, journalists have to know how to use social media as part of their jobs. For sports reporters, […]
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Teens use Instagram more than Snapchat
If you ask any teenager what his or her favorite social media platform is, they will probably say Snapchat. After all, it was built for their […]
Social media goes down, news readership goes up
On Aug. 3, Facebook went down for 45 minutes. This didn’t lead people to simply put down their phones or walk away from their computers. Instead, they […]
Google+ set to shut down
Though it didn’t seem to garner too much attention in the larger scope of the news cycle, some fairly big news came out Monday regarding […]
Looking into media’s use of Facebook Groups
The Nieman Journalism Lab, funded by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, studies all things journalism. Nieman Lab reporter Christine Schmidt recently took a look at how […]
Social media killing teen party habits
The youth of today, referred to as either Gen Z or iGen depending upon who you ask, don’t party as much as older generations did. […]
Talking Tech: Do I need multiple blogs and websites?
It’s interesting how little time it takes for a habit to be established. Since starting graduate school again, I have been consumed with reading journal […]
Online video fails to engage users
With services like Snapchat, Facebook Live and Instagram providing platforms for video sharing, not to mention the perennial video king in YouTube, various online players are […]
Engage students with Snapchat
My students are all on Snapchat. I have an account too, and so I often get students asking me for my account name because they want […]
Treat news sites with care of a chef
The traffic numbers for Sterling Student Publications, the site operated by my journalism students, is abysmal. This is especially true for our homepage, so I started […]
Newsletters create engagement
During my 45-minute commute home from my job as a high school journalism teacher, I was thinking about what I could have my magazine students do […]
Thought Paper: Social Media in Scholastic Journalism
NOTE: This was a paper I wrote for J7700 Participatory Journalism that was supposed to discuss concepts concerning “the sharing of digital journalism.” In the class, […]