Below are two quotes from The Facebook Effect (p 54). One thing that Mark Zuckerberg can attribute to much of Facebook’s success other than a well engineered product and a great idea is a clear vision. As I am learning from David Kirkpatrick’s book and my personal experience as an active Facebook user is the [...]
Archive for the ‘Journalism’ Category
August 10, 2010
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Is a journalism education still useful?
By Nina in Capstone, Design, HCId, Journalism, PoynterYes. Very useful. Carrie Hoover asked a group of grads “is a journalism-centric education is still useful in today’s job market?” for a piece she’s doing for the Society for News Design Denver Conference. Here’s what I wrote back, the bottom bit is the most interesting. I am grateful for every second of my journalism [...]
August 8, 2010
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Why is this news story important to my life?
By Nina in Capstone, Design, HCId, Journalism, ShareReading the news can be a real drag. It’s depressing, it’s dense and you wonder if your life or the world would be any different if you read yet another article about the BP oil spill. It’s tough to connect epic war sagas to my life of sitting in front of a computer and hanging [...]
July 25, 2010
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What makes content shareable?
By Nina in Design, HCId, Journalism, ShareBelow is a graduate journalism school independent study proposal. Summary Social media may be in its infancy but its model changes as quickly as slowly as mature newsroom are evolving. In short, the divide between social and hard news media is growing further apart. Traditional or hard news values like timeliness, impact and accuracy are [...]
January 16, 2010
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Digital news devices disregard the digital divide
By Nina in Design, HCId, JournalismMany journalism blogs and conversations are suggesting that E-readers, tablets and new devices will be the future of journalism. These will save news. I disagree. Below is a repost of a comment I made on the Society for News Design blog post about these readers. Matt Mansfield post reports on Roger Fidler, program director for [...]