COM 13500 Introduction to Journalism

1. Journalism Today – Part 1 COM 135 Introduction to Journalism

2. “The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.” ~David Brinkley

3. Today’s Concepts – Journalism Today Part 1 Some Stats Web 2.0 What is convergence? Three Crucial Questions Facing the News Business

4. Some Stats… From p. 14 of your Textbook Funny Link to The Onion’s Spoofs On News Industry

5. Some Stats… From p. 14 of your Textbook

6. Web 2.0 = The Read/Write Web A fully interactive and collaborative medium with social networking, interactive games, and user-created content like wikis, blogs and podcasts.

7. Web 2.0: The Machine Is Us/ing Us by Dr. Michael Wesch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g&feature=channel_page

10. Often interchangeable with “multimedia”The Seattle Times: Guitar Lessons at the Central Area Senior Center Newsroom Convergence: Tampa Bay Online Star Tribune: Minnesota Olympic Athlete Profiles Flickr: Gwen Vanhee

11. ConvergenceTools Multimedia Journalism: Producing news content for multiple platforms; enriched with text, photos, video, audio and interactive graphics Flickr: Gwen Vanhee

12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdJlyh76dEc Flickr: Gwen Vanhee

13. Three Crucial Questions Facing the News Business p. 15