Soundslides 3

My Soundslides 3 is complete!
It was really difficult finding an issue.  Most of the time when we hear about something that is compelling it’s usually coming from a journalist.  We either read it in the newspaper, in a magazine, or watch it on television.  Even then, our level of connection to it is not to [...]

HTML is scary

I have to admit, HTML scares me.  I don’t know anything about it and when I see it written out, I don’t even know where it starts or where it ends.  I have always wanted to learn it, but it seemed too daunting of a task to actually start figuring it out.  And as far [...]

Soundslides 2

My second soundslides are complete!
I originally planned on doing a bakery, but I figured that a lot of my colleagues would be doing restaurants or bakeries so I decided to look elsewhere.  I went to the Tioga Town Center to see what I could find and there it was.  Right in the corner, all the [...]

Really good advice I’ve heard in a long time!

Ira Glass, who is the executive producer and host of the weekly themed reporting show This American Life, offers the most realistic advice for every person pursuing a journalism career.
In part one, Glass mentions the two basic building blocks of broadcast reporting: the anecdote and the moment of relection.  The anecdote is the sequence of [...]