More readings I didn't realize I needed to do until the last minute

"You Must Be Streaming"

newspaper coverage online surpasses TV news online. Figures. But I guess newspaper figures they have to make up for their old fashioned-ness and hence, work harder at their online content.

citizen journalism is not good. agreed. amateurs who know nothing about journalism writing poor quality stories about celebrities does not help inform the public.

don't make a video if you have nothing to show.
one man bands...oy...i don't like them, particularly because taking pictures, interviewing, and getting a story are 3 separate things, and doing all by oneself can make for a poor story (especially if you're like me and know how to use a video camera, but aren't very good at it)

"Teaching Online Journalism: video storytelling tips"

Watch your seasoned reporters do pkgs. Then emulate them. that's nice, it'll teach you how to report, but it won't be your style. You'll be someone else.

Always be curious, prepare, be serious, detail everything, you know...the normal journalism techniques.
importance of sound
use pictures that match the pkg...blah blah blah

"Columbia Journalism Review: What Journalism Can't do"

In a psych. study, people responded better to helping out an individual child rather than 2 children. Interesting..but I think I'd do the same.

"psychic numbing" increases as number of suffering grows...people become statistics, not reality.

i guess this is why as journalists we tend to personalize heartbreaking stories..."put a face" on things.

according to this, journalists claim to change the world through showing mass emotion...but I don't think so. We personalize everything, like I said before. Even TV journalism, although not as much. Pictures speak a thousand words. And pictures of tragedies like Hurricane Katrina on TV DO make people think twice and does influence people's decision to donate money (although I don't have statistics on this to back me up)

"Online Storytelling Forms"

Online J is about showing, telling, interacting. It's like print and TV plus. A lot of work and a lot of responsbility, since more and more people my age get most of their news online.

"Use print to explain
Use multimedia to show
Use interactives to demonstrate and engage "

nice blueprint.
layer information...dont' make it all available at once, make people click to find out more or send them to other websites...make people feel involved.

give choices, but don't overload.
forms: print plus, clickable interactive (clicky things that are used a lot..nice but not for everything), slideshows, audio stories, narrated slide shows, live chats (now popular on many tv sites may I add-where people can chat with their fav. tv anchors...I think that's a little pathetic), quizzes and surveys (personally, these are annoying), and many many more.

the internet is evolving as a medium and so are the different forms of online news. Basically, anything goes. At least that's what I was told as I entered college. Now, probably not so much.

In fact, msnbc.com has a GAME news story about the new luggage screening policy. Pretty neat, but i'm not sure how much information the public will be able to take from it. it's just clicking buttons. not much learning happening.