I decided to talk briefly about Walter Cronkite. I actually first heard his voice in the animated movie We're Back: A Dinosaur's Story, where he plays the professor Neweyes. Just from that and his news reports, he has more of a gentle personality than most news reporters nowadays, who are more critical and stern towards the story.
"And that's the way it is."
Saturday, October 14, 2017
Friday, October 6, 2017
Assignment VI - Professional Online Presentation
*Decided to keep the questions in for contexts*
1. Why would a professional journalist want to create an online resume site or web presence? Because the internet is the most popular place to get information, and social media thrives in that area.
2. What kinds of tools are available to build your site? There's Wordpress, Google Sites, or Blogger. Or if you really want the most complex programming there's Adobe Dreamweaver.
3. What considerations do you have to keep in mind regarding branding and consistency? How does this helps a reader or potential employer find you? When you want to be a professional journalist, try not to overdo your layout with poorly done drawn and over the top colors, because that makes you unprofessional. Give your website a simple layout and color scheme, make it presentable to the eye.
5. What types of files will you collect to present and link to (be thinking what types of digital formats)? I'm not exactly sure what you mean, I think it's about pictures, in which case it depends on the file size. If you want your website to load faster, I recommend gifs.
6. How will you organize your site? Explain and provide one link from a search of professional journalists' websites as an example. What I would do is to show the most recent examples of my work at the main page, as well as give a brief overview of what I do. Like this one. https://raminzahed.journoportfolio.com/
7. How can creating a professional web presence help you work or represent yourself better as a professional? If you are starting out, then it's an excellent opportunity to get some constructive criticism from other internet users. One of the best things about the internet is that anybody from anywhere can help you.
1. Why would a professional journalist want to create an online resume site or web presence? Because the internet is the most popular place to get information, and social media thrives in that area.
2. What kinds of tools are available to build your site? There's Wordpress, Google Sites, or Blogger. Or if you really want the most complex programming there's Adobe Dreamweaver.
3. What considerations do you have to keep in mind regarding branding and consistency? How does this helps a reader or potential employer find you? When you want to be a professional journalist, try not to overdo your layout with poorly done drawn and over the top colors, because that makes you unprofessional. Give your website a simple layout and color scheme, make it presentable to the eye.
5. What types of files will you collect to present and link to (be thinking what types of digital formats)? I'm not exactly sure what you mean, I think it's about pictures, in which case it depends on the file size. If you want your website to load faster, I recommend gifs.
6. How will you organize your site? Explain and provide one link from a search of professional journalists' websites as an example. What I would do is to show the most recent examples of my work at the main page, as well as give a brief overview of what I do. Like this one. https://raminzahed.journoportfolio.com/
7. How can creating a professional web presence help you work or represent yourself better as a professional? If you are starting out, then it's an excellent opportunity to get some constructive criticism from other internet users. One of the best things about the internet is that anybody from anywhere can help you.
Friday, September 29, 2017
Assignment V - What is our greatest ethical obligation as journos?
It has to be "Seek Truth and Report It."
Let's say you are working for a news company and you want to post this story about how a politician did a very serious crime. However, it's an incriminating a politician with the same political beliefs as the news company, and they don't want you to besmirch the political party's name. But you have to do it anyway because it's not about the political party, it's about catching a criminal.
Friday, September 22, 2017
Online Story?
Oops. I guess I procrastinated too long and couldn't find the right words in time. But I swear I'll do the second online story assignment at a later time.
Assignment IV - Media Impact Project
The article I've looked at is https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/strategy-studies/improving-accountability-reporting/
In terms of journaling, I found a good quote that says, "Target the people who are unsure [because] the most likely people to be swayed are the people in the middle — those who aren’t sure what to believe."
According to that blog, "newspaper readers are now more of a visual society. We’re spoiled, impatient, even lazy. When we want information, we say show me, don’t tell me." Anybody can talk about whatever comes out of their mouth, but if you want to prove how true you are, you'd have to show them a picture of something. I myself am a visual learner and less of a words person, so I understand a story better if I can see it.
Online writers bring in the right amount of emotion and impact to get the views and followers up. They pick the right amount of words for the situation.
In terms of journaling, I found a good quote that says, "Target the people who are unsure [because] the most likely people to be swayed are the people in the middle — those who aren’t sure what to believe."
According to that blog, "newspaper readers are now more of a visual society. We’re spoiled, impatient, even lazy. When we want information, we say show me, don’t tell me." Anybody can talk about whatever comes out of their mouth, but if you want to prove how true you are, you'd have to show them a picture of something. I myself am a visual learner and less of a words person, so I understand a story better if I can see it.
Online writers bring in the right amount of emotion and impact to get the views and followers up. They pick the right amount of words for the situation.
Friday, September 15, 2017
Assignment III - Aggregator, or Activist?
Activists shouldn't be journalists. Activists are more focused on making their side the hero, and the other a villain. Journalists are all about discussing what's happening and keeping their biases out of their writing so that the reader can create their own argument.
Julian Assange is more of a muckraker. He is the founder of WikiLeaks which shows many emails and documents that are not meant to be seen to the public eye. In this article, he claimed to urge Trump Jr to publish his conversations with the Russians to his website. Assange also wanted to leak those emails supposedly to strengthen the connections to Donald Trump and Russia so the President could get impeached.
Edward Snowden is more honest about his action in leaking his emails. He didn't do it to make Obama look like a bad guy, he did it to warn people about any possible danger that might be coming.
Julian Assange is more of a muckraker. He is the founder of WikiLeaks which shows many emails and documents that are not meant to be seen to the public eye. In this article, he claimed to urge Trump Jr to publish his conversations with the Russians to his website. Assange also wanted to leak those emails supposedly to strengthen the connections to Donald Trump and Russia so the President could get impeached.
Edward Snowden is more honest about his action in leaking his emails. He didn't do it to make Obama look like a bad guy, he did it to warn people about any possible danger that might be coming.
Friday, September 8, 2017
Assignment II - Reporter's Privilege
They should not be considered professional journalists because there is a trap that bloggers talk about, and that is bias. Bloggers can certainly talk about what is going on but not without being opinionated about their beliefs and feelings. Experienced journalists would put aside their opinions and talk about the facts.
It all depends on your expertise. Reporter's Privilege, in my eyes, is about the right to speak as much truth, no matter what anybody else says. It's important, to tell the truth, to bring down some evil liar.
It all depends on your expertise. Reporter's Privilege, in my eyes, is about the right to speak as much truth, no matter what anybody else says. It's important, to tell the truth, to bring down some evil liar.
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