6 GREEDY REASONS TO BE AN EDITOR IN COLLEGE

This post kind of sums why I wanted to be the editor-in-chief of the Royal Purple. It prepares you for almost anything you will see in the journalism industry.

Koretsky

Here is the comment I posted on this blog:

Matthew J Gardner 

April 25, 2011 at 4:31 pm

I love reading your opinions and advice. I completely agree after listening to what you had to say in this. Although I haven’t aced the two interviews for editor I’ve had in my life (I didn’t get the job both times), I’ve gained more than enough experience on how to handle myself in an interview and what kind of questions I should prepare for. Your posts are very relevant to college journalists, and while some people may not like them, keep on doing what you’re doing. Great job.

Microblogging- Mark Coddington

I just recently started to following Mark Coddington, who we just recently read a post from about the International Symposium on Online Journalism.

Coddinton is a graduate student and former journalist who is currently working toward a master's degree in the research and theory program at the University of Texas School of Journalism. Although he is no longer a journalist, he is able to engage users through years of experience writing about government, education, crime, people, energy and just about every other aspect of news. He has a wealth of knowledge to draw from.

His blog is a site used to engage in the conversation surrounding the sea of changes going on with the media and the news ecosystem. With his current studies he is trying to better understand what the changes in thee way humans communicate and the way we gather information mean for the future.

I just commented on the blog Professor Wachanga presented in class:

Six themes from ISOJ

Here is the comment I made:

I’m in agreement on the first bullet point you brought up. Twitter is not meant to be something where journalists just use the site as a portal to their newspaper’s online website. You hit the nail right on the head when you said that journalists should be engaging their readers instead of leading them elsewhere to find a story. The story they are looking for should be on Twitter. Creating a conversation on that website is important for the retaining of readers. I also found an interesting example relating to your point from another journalist:

http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/101882/What-Is-Journalisms-Place-in-Social-Media.aspx

Transforming journalism

This post is in response to Mark Coddington's post about the International Symposium on Online Journalism.

The most alarming part about his post has to be the first bullet point that news organizations are posting their stories to Twitter instead of actively engaging users over Twitter. This is very disturbing to me because Twitter for journalists isn't meant just to be a portal to an online website. It is meant to be a place to engage users in two-way communication.

We have already dealt with this type of journalism earlier in the class with John Dickerson's report on Twitter practices. He argued that Twitter is meant to be something to interact with readers. He pointed out that the Twitter posts he made during the 2008 presidential race were perfect examples of the way Twitter should be used. I agree with. Microjournalism (journalism over Twitter) is not something journalists should reduce themselves to. Coddington brings up this point as well and I agree with him.