SURIVOR… do you have what it takes

The world is changing. Every day new technogoly is being created or becoming more advanced people in every type of career are finding hard to keep up with the younger generations creating all of this.
Journalism is no different. Print is starting to become less prevelant now that consumers of media can go online and read [...]

View from the other side

I got the priviledge to “intern” per say for the evening with my broadcast professor as he covered the Chris Shay/Jim Himes election for Connecticut Radio Network (CRN). It was one of the best and most interesting learning experiences I have had so far. I did not learn a lot about the election exactly but [...]

Learning the skills of i-Movie

World Series Poll. . .

Movie Classics… Web Shell

An ode to the movie classics that made movies what they are today.The era where the plotlines we love today started and evolved.

Movie Classic Appreciation
The Golden Years
Turner Classic Movies and other television stations have been created over the years to broadcast these classic movies. Movies that are aired on this station created the movie [...]

What IS blogging? Journalism?

We all know how blogging is on the rise, since we ourselves have become bloggers this semester BUT we’ve also learned how journalism for the Web is an almost completely different practice than print journalism. All of these things on the Web can add value to stories such as pictures, vocal interviews, video, screen grabbers… [...]

Forget The Basics

When you think of writing its all pretty much the same. You learned to write an essay in what 5th grade maybe even earlier? As you got older you learned different styles and different formats and even all the fancy stuff to make your self sound oh so intelligent, and grasped your own sense of [...]

Tech Toy Take-over

You wake up in the morning, walk over to your computer check your e-mail, turn on your phone to see if you’ve missed any text messages and then maybe surf the Internet. And you’re doing all of this while jamming out to your iPod, of course.
For most people nowadays, this is a normal occurrence. But [...]

LA Times Remembers 9/11

I knew when I chose to search the LA Times for coverage on 9/11 that the actual coverage would most likely not be as predominant as coverage in an east coast paper such as the NY Times or the Washington Post, and I was right. Both the NY Times and the Washington Post have a [...]

Web 2.0

The world of journalism is constantly changing and become more progressive everyday. Journalism moving in the world wide web means a more progressive interactive form of journalism. Print, the traditional model, is a very one sided form of journalism. There is no real immediate way to react or share your opinion on a story. On [...]