Lijam Blog

Jim Ioveno

Most stories break on website. Developed story is given later that day in the newscast

                -purpose: immediacy.

                -information travels extremely fast- you want to break the story first.

Pat Collins– “Snow reporter”

                “Incredible reporter because he can get whoever he talks to say something interesting”

                                -Find an angle to a story you think no one else will have and own it.

“Chat with Pat”- new way to present news. Great form of social media. – Pat Collins makes himself available via video to answer questions from the viewership.

                -Connect with the audience.

• Good to standout
• Great to be interesting to the readers

Q: What’s more important breaking the story or finding the best angle:

1. A.      Both

“If you break the story people realize that and come back to you”

“If you find a new angle people appreciate the new perspective and come back”

Local news-  It is important to emphasize why the story is important to the readership/community

Raw footage- people love this stuff, just find impressive video and make it available. Doesn’t always have to be “storied” up.

Prediction for online journalism in the coming years:  It’s going to be a lot more mobile. “Mobile mobile mobile.”

This just popped into my head during class.. Does anyone else see the resemblance between gmu online journalism professor Steve Klien and Sean Connery?

Bloggers and journalists more and more are progressing to siliar ideaologies

technology and news– This slide demonstrates the benefits of technology in news.

• Newsgathering is much easier now.
• Consumers can be used as assets much easier. Meaning it is made easier to find out what the consumers want in their news.

Jon Denunzio held a lecture where he spoke of the benefits of social media and effective ways to use soical media.

• Social media is a valuable source for consumer feedback.
• It allows websites to build rapport with consumers and open dialouge.
• It’s always good to search for new ideas, social media allows for makes it easier to get abundant feedback.

Onlinejournalismblog.com made predicitions about the nature of journalism in the next 25 years.

–Oddly enough the blog predicts people will “still be prediciting the death of newspapers.

               Because print media is becoming less and less profitable a popular belief is it will eventually disapear. The blog writer ” Influence and status are hard to buy. As long as newspapers offer either, there will be proprietors willing to make a loss on the balance sheet, for benefits elsewhere.”

Another interesting prediction is the comparison between journalists and musicians The blog predicits that because journalists, nowadays, do not need college degrees to write, the importance of growing a fanbase is increased. In 25 years journalists will get jobs based on the following they can build, not the education they receive.